Health Sector Reforms -- Measures, Muddles & Mires
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Public sector reforms for several decades have been premised on the assumption that improving the ability of government to manage its business will lead to improved social and economic progress. The 1997 World Bank Report describes a first generation of reforms in which steps were taken to cut government expenditures and to revive the private sector. Measures included budget cuts, tax reforms, limited privatization, liberalization of prices and, most conspicuously, efforts to downsize the public sector. The latter was almost invariably described as ‘bloated’ and therefore in need of surgery followed by a strictly enforced diet.
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