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- Economic problems of reforming healthcare in Russia.
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May 15, 2007 09:53
This paper is about issues on conducting reforms in the sphere of health care in Russia Federation after financial crisis of 1998.
- Reform in the organization and financial system of health structure in Kyrgyzstan.
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May 15, 2007 09:53
This paper considers major directions of reform in the health system in Kyrgyz Republic and first results of introducing compulsory medical insurance and organizing health cash points.
- Gold-digging in Kyrgyzstan
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The article focuses on the issues raised by the inhabitants around Jeruy, the second largest gold mine in Kyrgyzstan. They are protesting against mining development because of possible chemical spills.
- Life along the pipeline: Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan’s (BTC) impact on Azerbaijan
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The article provides an illustrated overview of how the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline has affected the lives of residents in its three host countries: Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.
- Belarus - Window of opportunity to enhance competitiveness and sustain economic growth - a Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) for the Republic of Belarus (Vol. 2 of 2)
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November 23, 2007 12:45
This Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) for the Republic of Belarus takes stock of the growth trends in the country's economy since 1996, reviews the evidence of the accumulated challenges and risks within the existing growth patterns, and provides recommendations aimed at strengthening growth sustainability. In sum, while economic growth in the last nine years has been impressive, the report argues that maintaining the current growth strategy would lead to a gradual erosion of economic competitiveness.
- Moldova - Opportunities for accelerated growth - a Country Economic Memorandum for the Republic of Moldova
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November 23, 2007 12:47
This Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) explores how Moldova can confront its emerging challenges to growth, and position itself strategically to take advantage of opportunities, by using its strengths more effectively.
- Kyrgyz Republic - Country Economic Memorandum - Enhancing the prospects for growth and trade (Vol. 1 of 2)
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November 23, 2007 12:50
This Country Economic Memorandum is aimed at helping the authorities in the Kyrgyz Republic identify factors explaining the apparent divergence between policies and outcomes, with a view to determining priorities for reform in the coming period.
- Enterprise restructuring and social benefits
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November 23, 2007 13:24
The paper designs a simple scheme of transitional support and show that it can be financed from the savings from removal of current subsidies to benefits.
- Sustainability of healthcare financing in the Western Balkans : an overview of progress and challenges
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November 23, 2007 13:26
This paper explores the major challenges to the sustainability of health sector financing in the countries of the Western Balkans - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and the province of Kosovo. It focuses on how the incentives created by the different elements of the healthcare financing system affect the behavior of healthcare providers and individuals, and the resulting inefficiencies in revenue collection and expenditure containment.
- Europe and Central Asia's great post-communist social health insurance experiment : impacts on health sector and labor market outcomes
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November 23, 2007 13:27
The post-communist transition to social health insurance in many of the Central and Eastern European and Central Asian countries provides a unique opportunity to try to answer some of the unresolved issues in the debate over the relative merits of social health insurance and tax-financed health systems. This paper employs a regression-based generalization of the difference-in-differences method and instrumental variables on panel data from 28 countries for the period 1990-2004.
- Moldova - Public Economic Management Review
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November 23, 2007 14:26
Unfavorable initial conditions, and extreme vulnerability to external shocks, as experienced by Moldova's economic transition, culminated in the 1998 regional financial crisis, which fostered the need for radical fiscal retrenchment, namely, reductions in social sectors expenditures. Currently, and despite a seemingly reasonable, attainable growth, the challenge for the Government is to improve basic outcomes in social sectors, and address inequities in access to basic social services.
- Financing health services in developing countries : an agenda for reform
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November 23, 2007 14:40
This report discusses several different approaches that support reforming health care services in developing countries.
- Europe and Central Asia's great post-communist social health insurance experiment : impacts on health sector and labor market outcomes
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November 23, 2007 14:42
This paper employs a regression-based generalization of the difference-in-differences method and instrumental variables on panel data from 28 countries for the period 1990-2004. The authors find that, controlling for any concurrent provider payment reforms, adoption of social health insurance increased national health spending and hospital activity rates, but did not lead to better health outcomes.
- Health insurance impacts on health and non-medical consumption in a developing country
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November 23, 2007 14:54
The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes, health care utilization, and non-medical household consumption.
- Kazakhstan - Reforming intergovernmental fiscal relations
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November 23, 2007 16:00
The report makes two major recommendations. First, it recommends that the Government of Kazakhstan provide separate, earmarked funding for functions with critical distributional implications. This would include primary education and primary health. These services would be financed on a capitation basis (i.e., an equal amount per pupil and registered patient, respectively.) The remaining subnational functions would be financed from an annually-determined share of the budget.
- Tajikistan : Public expenditure and institutional review
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November 23, 2007 16:10
This Public Expenditure and Institutional Review is part of a package of analytical and advisory service products aimed at assisting the government and Tajikistan's other development partners to develop a medium- to long-term strategy for public sector reform to support the government's poverty reduction objectives.
- Russian Federation - From transition to development : a country economic memorandum for the Russian Federation
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November 23, 2007 16:21
The purpose of this Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) is to assess the extent of structural change in the Russian Federation, and its contribution to long-term growth - a prerequisite for meeting the government's ambitious economic objectives.
- Uzbekistan - Public Expenditure Review
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November 23, 2007 16:23
This Public Expenditure Review (PER) is Uzbekistan's first one, prepared as part of the Bank's effort to establish a multiyear program of public expenditure work with the Government.
- Kazakhstan - Dimensions of poverty in Kazakhstan
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November 23, 2007 16:28
This report assesses the living conditions in Kazakhstan during 2001-2002, especially as concerning the poor. Based upon consultations with the Government, research institutes, and nongovernmental organizations, three key questions related to poverty were identified as critical to understanding the current situation, and to developing a poverty reduction strategy.
- Profile of living standards in Kazakhstan in 2002
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November 23, 2007 16:30
This report assesses the living conditions in Kazakhstan during 2001-2002, especially as concerning the poor. Based upon consultations with the Government, research institutes, and nongovernmental organizations, three key questions related to poverty were identified as critical to understanding the current situation, and to developing a poverty reduction strategy.
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