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The impact of public spending on health: does money matter?
Deon Filmer,Lant Pritchett +1 more
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Cross-national data is used to examine the impact of both public spending on health and non-health factors (economic, educational, cultural) in determining child (under-5) and infant mortality, finding that whereas health spending is not a powerful determinant of mortality, 95% of cross-national variation in mortality can be explained by a country's income per capita.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1999-11-01. It has received 747 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Per capita income & Income distribution.read more
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Health, Inequality, and Economic Development
Angus Deaton,Angus Deaton +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the connection between income inequality and health in both poor and rich countries and conclude that there is no direct link from income inequality to ill-health; individuals are no more likely to die if they live in more unequal places.
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Making Services Work for Poor People
TL;DR: The authors examines the experience with alternative mechanisms for service delivery, contracting out to the private and NGO sectors, community participation, co-financing by service beneficiaries and shows that this, as well as the experience of more traditional public sector provision, can be interpreted by looking at three principal-agent relationships in the service-delivery chain: between policymakers and providers, between clients and providers; and between clients (as citizens) and policymakers.
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Local Capture: Evidence from a Central Government Transfer Program in Uganda
Ritva Reinikka,Jakob Svensson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the extent to which the grant actually reached the intended end-user (schools) using panel data from a unique survey of primary schools, and find that schools in better-off communities managed to claim a higher share of their entitlements.
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Health, inequality, and economic development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the connection between health and inequality in both poor and rich countries and conclude that there is no direct link from income inequality to mortality; individuals are no more likely to die or to report that they are in poor health if they live in places with a more unequal distribution of income.
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Contagion: Understanding How It Spreads
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the importance of other links through which shocks are normally transmitted including trade and finance, and identify the types of links and other macroeconomic conditions that can make a country vulnerable to contagion during crisis periods.
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Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions
William Easterly,Ross Levine +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that ethnic diversity helps explain cross-country differences in public policies and other economic indicators in Sub-Saharan Africa, and that high ethnic fragmentation explains a significant part of most of these characteristics.
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A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality
Klaus Deininger,Lyn Squire +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a new data set on inequality in the distribution of income is presented, and the authors explain the criteria they applied in selecting data on Gini coefficients and on individual quintile groups' income shares.
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Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public goods the city supplies, and conclude that ethnic conflict is an important determinant of local public finances.
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A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality
Klaus Deininger,Lyn Squire +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new data set on inequality in the distribution of income is presented, and the authors explain the criteria they applied in selecting data on Gini coefficients and on individual quintile groups' income shares.
World development report 1993 : investing in health
Seth Berkley,Jose Luis Bobadilla,Robert Hecht,Kenneth Hill,Dean T. Jamison,Christopher J L Murray,Philip Musgrove,Helen Saxenian,Jee-Peng Tan +8 more
TL;DR: This report examines the controversial questions surrounding health care and health policy and advocates a threefold approach to health policy for governments in developing countries and in the formerly socialist countries, based in large part on innovative research.
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