TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grigoli,Francesco
AU  - Kapsoli,Javier
TI  - Waste Not, Want Not: The Efficiency of Health Expenditure in Emerging and Developing Economies 
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 1484364260 :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Developing Economies
KW  - imf
KW  - Disability
KW  - Efficiency
KW  - Emerging Economies
KW  - Health and Economic Development
KW  - Health Expenditure
KW  - Bulgaria
KW  - Congo, Democratic Republic of the
KW  - Dominican Republic
KW  - Morocco
KW  - Papua New Guinea
N2  - Public health spending is low in emerging and developing economies relative to advanced economies and health outputs and outcomes need to be substantially improved. Simply increasing public expenditure in the health sector, however, may not significantly affect health outcomes if the efficiency of this spending is low. This paper quantifies the inefficiency of public health expenditure and the associated potential gains for emerging and developing economies using a stochastic frontier model that controls for the socioeconomic determinants of health, and provides country-specific estimates. The results suggest that African economies have the lowest efficiency. At current spending levels, they could boost life expectancy up to about five years if they followed best practices
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