Population, growth and health expenditure
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Population Ageing and Health Care Expenditure
The OECD’s most recent projections of the impact of population ageing on public expenditures suggest that health and long term care will account for about half of the increase in age-related social expenditures between 2000 and 2050. Projections of health care spending are subject, however, to more uncertainties than projections of pension expenditure. Making reliable forecasts of the impact of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Brasileira de Economia
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0034-7140
DOI: 10.1590/s0034-71402000000400002