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Raising more domestic money for health: prospects for low- and middle-income countries

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  • Elovainio, Riku
  • Evans, David B.

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Since the 2007/2008 financial crisis, the rhetoric in the development assistance dialogue has shifted away from raising more international funding for health, to requesting countries to move toward self-sufficiency. This paper examines the potential of 46 countries identified by an international panel in 2009 as being of high need to raise additional funding for health from domestic sources. Economic growth alone would allow 12 of them to reach a level of health spending where their populations could have access to a very basic set of health services. All of them have the potential to raise additional domestic funds through a range of measures that have been tried successfully in other low- and middle-income countries, but they would all remain well below the eventual objective of universal health coverage without increased and predictable external financial support.

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  • Elovainio, Riku & Evans, David B., 2017. "Raising more domestic money for health: prospects for low- and middle-income countries," Health Economics, Policy and Law, Cambridge University Press, vol. 12(2), pages 139-157, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:hecopl:v:12:y:2017:i:02:p:139-157_00
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