Economic evaluation in health care is increasingly used to assist policy makers in their difficult task of allocating limited resources. The high cost of care, including that for clotting factor concentrates, makes hemophilia a potential target for cost-cutting efforts by health care payers. Although the appropriate management of hemophilia is key to minimizing and preventing long-term morbidit...

BACKGROUND Health systems across Africa are faced with a multitude of competing priorities amidst pressing resource constraints. Expansion of health insurance coverage offers promise in the quest for sustainable healthcare financing for many of the health systems in the region. However, the broader policy implications of expanding health insurance coverage have not been fully investigated and c...

Measuring the total impact of health insurance receipt on household labor supply is important in an era of increased access to publicly provided and subsidized insurance. Although government expansion of health insurance to older workers leads to direct labor supply reductions for recipients, there may be spillover effects on the labor supply of uncovered spouses. While the most basic model pre...

FOREWORD The project required collaboration among a number of entities on three continents: the Financial Sector Team within the Policy Division of DFID UK financed and supported the main project (Justin Highstead); and two country financial sector programmes, FSD in Kenya (David Ferrand) and FinMark Trust in South Africa (Jeremy Leach), financed and facilitated the country-level information ga...

 The swell in government spending threatens to diminish long term growth potential in many nations. Our study of 37 countries reveals how enlarged government spending meaningfully dents the efficiency of investment and potential for future growth.  In response to the financial crisis, Greece, the UK, and Spain implemented the loosest fiscal policies during the 2008-2010 period, among 37 natio...

We study how social networks change due to an exogenous intervention, such as an expansion in financial access, and we show how to estimate the effect of these network changes on individual outcomes (intervention spillovers). We use a unique panel dataset that contains detailed information on the network of informal financial transactions before and after a field experiment that randomized acce...

In this paper, we study the empirical relationship between credit funding sources and the financial vulnerability of the Colombian banking system. We propose a statistical model to measure and predict banking fragility episodes associated with credit funding sources classified into retail deposits and wholesale funds. We compute the probability of financial fragility for both the aggregated ban...

This paper investigates the relationship between contingency factors, strategic management accounting and firm performance. Due to the development and expansion of organizations and their connections to the industrial competition, it is usable that the organization rely more on non-financial information than financial. The management accounting and financial accounting literature have highlight...