Estimates of National Health Accounts
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The authors are indebted to Chandika Indikadahena who has maintained the data files on which the NHA-2000 have been constructed. This construction would not have been possible without an input from several dozen persons who have responded to data request and commented preliminary versions of the data files; this input will be acknowledged in a forthcoming releases on NHA.
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