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The Prices in the Crises : What We Are Learning from Twenty Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Das, Jishnu; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...

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The impact of population ageing on economic growth in developing countries : panel ARDL evidence

Dekkiche, Djamal - In: Croatian review of economic, business and social … 11 (2025) 1, pp. 17-33

The study aims to analyze the economic effects of population ageing in Japan, Spain, Italy, the United States, South Korea, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Canada using the panel ARDL (Autoregressive Distributed Lag) model. GDP per capita was adopted as the dependent variable, while the...

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Sweet Cash : Is Healthcare a Normal Good for Women in Developing Countries?

Agrawal, Shubhangi; Chatterjee, Chirantan; Chatterjee, … - 2022

In this paper, we explore the little studied role of gender-based tastes and preferences in the empirical relationship between income and demand for health care. Based on a large body of evidence which suggests that the gender identity of the recipient of money can significantly influence...

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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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Economic Growth and Disease in the OLG Model

Yaly, Amy - 2011

The aim of this paper is to provide an in-depth analysis of the impact of investment in health-sector policies on economic development. In order to do this, it is vital to bear in mind the fact that long-term economic growth is characterized by the interaction between the physical aspects of...

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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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Political institutions and health expenditure

Blum, Johannes; Dorn, Florian; Heuer, Axel - 2021

We examine how political institutions influence health expenditure by using a panel of 151 developing and developed countries for the years 2000 to 2015 and four measures of democracy. Our pooled OLS analysis shows that democracies have 20-30% higher government health expenditure relative to GDP...

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Sweetening the Carrot : Motivating Public Physicians for Better Performance

Garcia Prado, Ariadna - 2006

It is widely observed that many physicians working in public health facilities do not put in the required effort and … time in their jobs. At the same time, many public physicians remain highly motivated, working long hours for little … improve the inoptimal performance of some physicians without compromising the effort of those already motivated. This paper …

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Health Accounting in 124 Colonised Countries

Oyekola, Olayinka - 2020

Using a cross-section of 124 colonised countries, we evaluate the effect of the European share of the colonial population on human development as measured by life expectancy, fertility rate, and infant mortality rate. We find that European colonial settlement is positively related to life...

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Origins and Developments of Public-Private Partnerships in the Health Care Systems in Developed Countries : Principles, Stakes, and Institutional Challenges

Sanni Yaya, Hachimi - 2005

The public-private partnership (PPP) is a trendy model in public administration. It is moved by a dynamic in which the modern welfare State steps back in favor of a strategist State whose objectives of general interest are met relying on both public and private economic sectors. In an era that...

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