Fiscal Decentralization, Chinese Style: Good for Health Outcomes?
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Fiscal Decentralization, Chinese Style: Good for Health Outcomes?
— This study analyzes the effect of fiscal decentralization on health outcomes in China using a panel data set with nationwide county-level fiscal data. We find that more fiscally decentralized provinces have lower infant mortality rates than provinces that are the main spending authority, if certain conditions are met. Key among those conditions are the county governments’ own fiscal capacity ...
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1 Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2 UNICEF Office for China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 3 Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 4 Department of Health Statistics and Social Medicine, Fudan University School of Public Health, Shanghai, People’s R...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: World Development
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0305-750X
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.06.007