The political economy of health services provision in Brazil

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 723-751

  Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq ^a   Rajkumar, Andrew Sunil ^b   Cropper, Maureen ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 79958784135     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660001     Document Type: Article

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