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| Asfaw, Abay; Frohberg, Klaus; James, K.S.; Jutting, Johannes Paul. |
| Over the last two decades, many countries around the world have been enthusiastically embarking on the path of decentralization. Decentralization has been advocated as a powerful means to improve the provision of health care services and health outcomes in developing countries. However, due to a preconceived idea that decentralization will result in efficient allocation of public resources and lack of an analytical framework to systematically analyze its impact on health outcomes, very little empirical works have been done in this area. Scant attention has also been given to analyze factors enabling or constraining its outcomes. In this paper, we develop a theoretical model and use it to test empirically the impact of fiscal decentralization on rural... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Health Economics and Policy; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18731 |
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