Paying Out-of-Pocket and Informally for Health Care in Albania: The Impoverishing Effect on Households
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1 Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, United Nations University-MERIT (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2 Department of Economics, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium, 3 Top Institute Evidence Based Education Research (TIER), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, 4 Department of Health Services Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, 5 Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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