The mode of payment creates powerful incentives affecting provider behavior and the efficiency, equity and quality outcomes of health finance reforms. This paper examines provider incentives as well as...
The interaction of fertility and infant mortality is well established. Lower infant mortality can lead to lower fertility by reducing the need for replacement births. Conversely, birth spacing improves...
This study applies the recurrent cost projection procedures to estimate the costs of Indonesia's current plans for the hospital subsector and compare the recurrent cost implications of alternative investment...
This paper draws attention to the importance of incorporating weights for time preference and productivity in using the concept of healthy days of life lost to evaluate health projects. Two alternative...
This paper estimates the cost effectiveness of turberculosis treatment in Botswana using short treatment regimes based on the antimycobacterial drugs, Rifampicin (R) or Ethambutol (E), compared to long...
An econometric model of household production, consumption and labor supply behavior for a semicommercial farm with a competitive labor market is presented, using a Cobb-Douglas specification for the production...
A model addressing agricultural responses to public interventions is described. The model is confined to the short run, and it allows an assessment of the policy significance of changes in five variables...