Public spending on health care in Africa: do the poor benefit?
Health care is a basic service essential in any effort to combat poverty, and is often subsidized with public funds to help achieve that aim. This paper examines public spending on curative health care in several African countries and finds that this spending favours mostly the better-off rather tha...
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Main Authors: | F Castro-Leal (Author), J Dayton (Author), L Demery (Author) |
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The World Health Organization.
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