Health care services and government spending in Pakistan

PIDE Working Papers

Volumn , Issue 32, 2007, Pages 1-25

  Akram, Muhammad ^a   Khan, Faheem Jehangir ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Concentration coefficient; Expenditure; Gini; Health; Hospital and clinics; Mother and child; Preventive measures; Public policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 70549085156     PISSN: 00788228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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