This article provides an overview of the U.S. health care system and recent proposals for health system reform. Prepared for a 15-nation comparative study for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the article summarizes descriptive data on the financing, utilization, access, and supply of U.S. health services; analyzes health system cost growth and trends; reviews he...

a s health systems prepare for healthcare reform, they are focusing significant resources on developing accountable care organizations and medical homes and on preparing for bundled payments and population-based reimbursement. However, current economic trends combined with an analysis of the impact of key healthcare reform initiatives will require health systems to take significant cost out of ...

The Boer War acted as a catalyst for military reform, including reform of the Army Medical Services (AMS). The subsequent medical debate was centred on the value of sanitation as a provision for war. This article looks at the forces, political, military and economic, that propelled the provision of sanitation to a prominent position in the reforms of the army, and the effect this had on the sta...

U.S. welfare reforms will add one to two million persons to the labor force from 19932005. Because this increase in labor supply is only about one percent of the U.S. labor force, it is unlikely that welfare reform will have sizable effects on overall U.S. wages or unemployment. However, a variety of economic models suggest that welfare reform will significantly reduce the real earnings of some...

This paper reviews the state of knowledge on the effectiveness of donor interventions aimed at improving the regulatory environment for private sector development in developing countries. Where regulatory reform is undertaken, the expectation is that there will be improvements to economic and welfare outcomes. By providing a review of the evidence on the results of regulatory reform, the paper ...

* This paper was prepared for the Moscow seminar on Russian economic reform, organised by the IMF for 5-7 April 2000, and summarises part of the work that the authors have done for Chapter 2 of OECD Economic Survey of Russia: 1999-2000.

This article compares the income distribution’s equality in the economic growth of East Asia and Latin America, with the conclusion that the degree of social equality is not significant better in east Asia. And this article analyzes how the characteristics of social equality affects the economic development by the factors including industry policy, education, land reform, social security, urban...

These remarks, prepared for the “Issues in Community Economic Development” conference at Western New England College, provide a brief overview of the law and economics literature on urban economic development. I conclude with a set of principles for legislative reform. ∗ Professor of Law and Paul J. Liacos Scholar, Boston University; [email protected].