Health tourism on the rise? Evidence from the Balance of Payments Statistics
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Keywords
Health tourism; Trade in services; Quantile regression; I15; F60;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
- F60 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - General
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