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U.S. Healthcare: A Story of Rising Market Power, Barriers to

WEBHealthcare in the United States is the most expensive in the world, with real per capita spending growth averaging 4 percent since 1980. This paper examines the …

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Education and Health for Inclusiveness in: IMF Working Papers …

WEBWe discuss existing shortfalls and inequalities in the accumulation of human capital—knowledge, skills, and health. We analyze their immediate and systemic …

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CHAPTER 6: Stages of Health System Development and Health …

WEBAbstract This chapter presents an analytical framework to help macroeconomists understand health systems and assess health policy for countries at different stages of …

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CHAPTER 5: Conceptual Framework for Classifying Health Systems

WEBAbstract Like other socioeconomic systems, a health system is structured by state action or inaction to serve certain social purposes. A state makes conscious decisions in …

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Regional Disparities, Growth, and Inclusiveness

WEBFigure 1. 90 th percentile / 10 th percentile of regional real GDP per capita, average across advanced economies, 1950–2016 (top panel), and emerging markets, …

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Development Focus: Education and Health Care in the Caribbean

WEBSocial indicators. Most education and health indicators place the Caribbean countries well above the average for developing countries with similar income levels …

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CHAPTER 4: Health Policy Challenges and Issues Confronting …

WEBPopulation aging, combined with a changing epidemiological pattern, will pose two other challenges: pressures for a change in the health care delivery system and the likelihood …

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The Economics of Public Health Care Reform in Advanced and …

WEBModerating the growth of age-related spending, including on health, will have to be a major element of the fiscal con-solidation strategy in the advanced economies over the coming …

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Healthcare Reform in Greece: Progress and Reform Priorities

WEBWe review Greek public sector healthcare policies and health-related outcomes since 2010.We find that excess spending was successfully curtailed, elements …

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Rationalizing Pharmaceutical Spending in: IMF Working Papers …

WEBPharmaceutical spending accounts for a large share of health spending worldwide. While pharmaceuticals are an indispensable component of effective modern …

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CHAPTER 11: Challenges in Reforming the Japanese Health Care …

WEBAbstract Countries around the world are anxiously searching for better health care systems. The development of health care systems has followed a different route in each country, …

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Jordan: Health Spending Efficiency: Issues and Reform Directions

WEBBackground. Jordan aims to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030. Rising health care costs, and an ageing population with prevalent chronic …

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CHAPTER 16: Evidence-Based Health Financing Reform in Thailand

WEBAbstract Thailand is a lower-middle-income country in Southeast Asia with a GDP per capita of $4,720 in 2010. Complete geographical coverage of the health care infrastructure …

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10. Impact of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic on the Health Sectors of …

WEBAbstract Any discussion of the impact of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) on health care systems must distinguish between treatment of the opportunistic illnesses …

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Links Between Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: A Survey1

WEBIs there a tradeoff between raising growth and reducing inequality and poverty? This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the complex links …

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Green Jobs: Protecting the environment can go hand in hand with …

WEBPolicies matter. There is an important caveat, however. In addition to the emission-reduction targets themselves and the technology deployed to meet them, …

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Chapter 15. Violence in the Caribbean: Cost and Impact

WEBA common trend among the five Caribbean countries surveyed is the dominance of violent crimes (Figure 15.2).The number of victims of assault and threat as a share of the …

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Challenges in Reforming the Japanese Health Care System

WEBWeaknesses in the Japanese health care system include an inefficient primary care system, a lack of differentiation among health care providers, and a lack of standard …

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Food Insecurity in Nigeria: Food Supply Matters: Nigeria

WEBAgainst the backdrop of high international food and fertilizer prices, this paper discusses food insecurity in Nigeria, investigates its drivers in a cross-country setting, …

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