Pursuing a national health strategy in a decentralized fiscal regime

Drawing from the public finance literature on expenditure assignment, this paper analyzes how devolution in the health sector is being operationalized in the Philippines. A central issue is how the central government can ensure that national and local objectives coincide. The pattern of health spend...

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Published in:Philippine Review of Economics and Business (formerly The Philippine Review of Business and Economics) Vol. XXXIV, no. 2 (Dec. 1997), 239-287
Main Author: Esguerra, Emmanuel F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 1997
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