It is generally accepted that government health expenditures should disproportionately benefit the poor. And yet in most developing countries the opposite is the case. This paper examines the implications of a central assumption of benefit incidence analysis, namely that the unit cost of a government-provided service bears no relation to the out-of-pocket payments paid by the patient. It argues that a more plausible assumption is that larger out-of-pocket...
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2010/03/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS5234
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2010/03/10
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Disclosed
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Benefit incidence analysis : are government health expenditures more pro-rich than we think ?
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concentration index