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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy?

Heller, Peter S. - 2007

This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need to address issues concerning health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to any strategy of...

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The Spending Challenge for Reaching the SDGS in Sub-Saharan Africa : Lessons Learned from Benin and Rwanda

Prady, Delphine - 2020

This paper documents the additional spending that is required for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to achieve meaningful progress in SDGs by 2030. Benin and Rwanda are presented in detail through case studies. The main lessons are: i) average additional spending across SSA is significant, at 19 percent...

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Will There Be New Emerging-Market Economies in Africa by the Year 2020?

Berthélemy, Jean-Claude; Soderling, Ludvig - 2021

This paper examines past African growth experience and attempts to simulate future ones. In addition to more commonly used determinants of total factor productivity, a measure of the effect of labor real location and an index of economic diversification are constructed and included as factors...

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Waste Not, Want Not : The Efficiency of Health Expenditure in Emerging and Developing Economies

Grigoli, Francesco - 2013

Public health spending is low in emerging and developing economies relative to advanced economies and health outputs and outcomes need to be substantially improved. Simply increasing public expenditure in the health sector, however, may not significantly affect health outcomes if the efficiency...

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In Search of Information : Use of Google Trends' Data to Narrow Information Gaps for Low-Income Developing Countries

Narita, Futoshi - 2019

Timely data availability is a long-standing challenge in policy-making and analysis for low-income developing countries. This paper explores the use of Google Trends' data to narrow such information gaps and finds that online search frequencies about a country significantly correlate with...

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Health Care Reform in Greece : Progress and Reform Priorities

Kalavrezou, Niki; Jin, Hui - 2022

We review Greek public sector healthcare policies and health-related outcomes since 2010.We find that excess spending was successfully curtailed, elements of the institutional framework were modernized, and health outcomes have been relatively favorable. However, especially prior to Covid-19,...

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Rising Child Poverty in Europe : Mitigating the Scarring from the Covid-19 Pandemic

Hallaert, Jean-Jacques; Vassileva, Iglika; Chen, Tingyun - 2023

Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, the number of children suffering from … potential scarring effect of the pandemic, policies should be deployed to reduce rapidly the number of children affected by … poverty and mitigate the long-term impact of poverty. Reducing the number of children affected by poverty can be achieved by …

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Does an Inclusive Citizenship Law Promote Economic Development?

Imam, Patrick - 2019

This paper analyzes the impact of citizenship laws on economic development. We first document the evolution of citizenship laws around the world, highlighting the main features of jus soli, jus sanguinis as well as mixed regimes, and shedding light on the channels through which they could have...

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The Endogenous Skill Bias of Technical Change and Inequality in Developing Countries

Behar, Alberto - 2013

This paper draws on existing empirical literature and an original theoretical model to argue that globalization and skill supply affect the extent to which technology adoption in developing countries favors skilled workers. Developing countries are experiencing technical change that is...

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Multiple Dimensions of Human Development Index and Public Social Spending for Sustainable Development

Paliova, Iana - 2019

Multidimensional assessment of human development is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in assessing well-being. The focus of analysis is on the indicators measuring the three dimensions of Human Development Index (HDI) - standard of living, education and health, and their...

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