OBJECTIVE To estimate the total domestic health expenditure in Hong Kong between fiscal years 1989/90 and 2001/02, with breakdown by financing source, provider, and function over time. METHODS The standard health accounting methods as per the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development System of Health Accounts guidelines of 2000 were adopted. RESULTS Total domestic health expend...

The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, which was launched in 1996, is the first comprehensive effort by the international community to reduce the external debt of the world's poorest countries. The Initiative will generate substantial savings relative to current and past public spending on health and education in these countries. Although there is ample scope for raising public ...

This study examines the effect of the composition of federal and state government spending on various important air pollutants in the US using a newly assembled data set of government expenditures. The results indicate that a reallocation of spending from private goods (RME) to social and public goods (PME) by state and local governments reduces air pollution concentrations while the compositio...