trends in national income, poverty and public expenditure. Debt Service: An Emerging Problem looks at the growth of external … Commonwealth of Independent States. It contains six articles: Economic Growth, Poverty and Long-Term Disadvantage examines recent …

information needed by policymakers, investors, and other interested stakeholders. To better understand the current health care …

based on their income level, health outcomes, coverage outcomes, cost effectiveness, and the availability of information on … their health financing strategies. Low-income, lower middle-income, and upper middle-income countries were selected, each …This study reviews literature on financing catastrophic health expenditures in selected countries to describe and …

The expenditures for employer-provided health care in private establishments and for student health services in private … schools are two components estimated in the Philippine National Health Accounts (PNHA). The basic methodology for producing … private schools surveys. The surveys on health expenditures of private establishments and private schools were conducted again …

health coverage (UHC) of their social health insurance schemes. It seeks to analyze a set of domains including membership … discussions and proceedings, and individual country plans of integrating, widening, and deepening health insurance coverage with …. The study adopts the UHC cube of the World Health Organization as the framework for the review. It finally submits …

there is much potential for PPPs to help address health inequities and advance universal health care (UHC). In support of … these efforts, the paper defines PPPs and their role in the health system and proposes health PPP options that would support … the pursuit of UHC. The objectives of this paper are to define what PPPs are and their application in the health sector …

hospitals and health care facilities. This paper looks into the feasibility of implementing PPPs in the health sector. Review of … was reviewed using five performance criteria, namely, improved health care access, equity, and quality, operating with … said framework; and policy and program implementation recommendations for health PPPs. In order to improve the feasibility …

the Health Sector Reform Strategy. The last section concludes and provides some policy recommendations. …

% of GDP, re-establishes the trend that monetary poverty would have followed in the absence of a crisis and even leads to a … modern health care services. A universal (non-targeted) variant of this transfer policy for 0-5 year-olds has similar results …

the eight MDGs. The MDGs include eradication of extreme poverty and hunger; universal primary education; gender equality … and women empowerment; reduction of child mortality; improvement of maternal health; control of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and … certain aspects of all of the seven quantifiable goals, namely: Goal 1 (poverty and hunger), Goal 2 (education), Goal 3 …