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The Performance Dimensions in Budget => Is the budget linked to policy priorities? => Topic started by: harnett on March 27, 2017, 09:50:49 GMT

Title: The IMF and Government Health Expenditure
Post by: harnett on March 27, 2017, 09:50:49 GMT

The latest paper in a debate that is worth following - the research focuses on West Africa. http://www.kentikelenis.net/uploads/3/1/8/9/31894609/stubbs2017-the_imf_and_government_health_expenditure_a_response_to_sanjeev_gupta.pdf

Title: Re: The IMF and Government Health Expenditure
Post by: John Short on March 28, 2017, 16:02:34 GMT

The problem with this debate is that it does not place health spending into the context of the overall budget, its financing  and competing claims.  Summed up in the quote "(T)hese findings suggest that although the IMF does include priority spending floors in their programmes, they assign less importance to them than to budget balance ceilings".  A one dimensional view, however worthy, is not balanced.