The looming Social Security financing imbalance is one of the most pressing economic issues in the United States today. The resolution will have a substantial impact on the economic and social well being of current and future generations. To date, academic research has focused mainly on whether the United States should undertake structural reform, rather than whether it is likely. I present a d...

OBJECTIVE Chile, a South American country recently defined as a high-income nation, carried out a major healthcare system reform from 2005 onwards that aimed at reducing socioeconomic inequality in health. This study aimed to estimate income-related inequality in self-reported health status (SRHS) in 2000 and 2013, before and after the reform, for the entire adult Chilean population. METHODS ...

China is a country with vast regional differences and uneven economic development, which have led to widening gaps between the rich and poor in terms of access to healthcare, quality of care, and health outcomes. China's healthcare reform efforts must be tailored to the needs and resources of each region and community. Building and strengthening primary care within the Chinese health care syste...

Measuring performance is critical to assess effectiveness of public health expenditure. Performance of health care delivery however relies on adequate accountability indicators as benchmark for efficiency. Individual programs sometimes track specific output but do not examine overall health care delivery system. This is difficult to measure but is critical if health care systems are to achieve ...

This thesis investigates whether the economic regime of a country influences the efficacy of shock therapy reform, and if so, how. In this thesis, an economic regime is restricted to be either a mixed or socialist economy, and shock therapy is defined to be a class of rapid economic reforms used to introduce capitalism to a country. Based on existing literature on the subject of shock therapy, ...

This paper studies the growth and performance of foreign investment enterprises in developing countries in the context of global economic integration and domestic reform with a focus on Vietnam as a case study. A model of enterprise performance is constructed to provide empirical findings and evidence-based policy implications on the role of capital, investment, monetary and development pol...

This paper examines the tensioned nature of curriculum intent and reform or re-energization with a particular focus on English language teaching and learning. The paper presents recent examples of referenced examples of English language curriculum reform projects in South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia can draw upon in its...

Background China's Reform and Open up Policy in 1980s has brought rapid economic development to Chinese society. With the deepening of economic reform, the withdrawal of the state in China has had visible and worrisome consequences for health and for the functioning of health services. The new round of healthcare reform after 2009 has made significant achievements on improving fundamental healt...

This paper provides a historical perspective for China’s economic reform. It first summarizes nine stylized facts of China’s gradual reform, and then explains what forces have driven China into gradualism and how China’s gradual reform has become a success. The paper shows that the transition from a centrally-planned system to a market economy is an evolutionary process with interactions among ...

In this paper we focus on the compliance effects of tax regime changes. According to the economic model of tax evasion, a tax reform should affect compliance through its impact on tax rates and incentives. Our findings demonstrate the importance of at least two further effects not covered by the traditional model: First, reform losers tend to evade more taxes after the reform. Second, a reform ...