Disparity and Convergence: Chinese Provincial Government Health Expenditures

The huge regional disparity in government health expenditures (GHE) is a major policy concern in China. This paper addresses whether provincial GHE converges in China from 1997 to 2009 using the economic convergence framework based on neoclassical economic growth theory. Our empirical investigation...

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Autores principales: Pan, Jay, Wang, Peng, Qin, Xuezheng, Zhang, Shufang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23977049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071474
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description The huge regional disparity in government health expenditures (GHE) is a major policy concern in China. This paper addresses whether provincial GHE converges in China from 1997 to 2009 using the economic convergence framework based on neoclassical economic growth theory. Our empirical investigation provides compelling evidence of long-term convergence in provincial GHE within China, but not in short-term. Policy implications of these empirical results are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-37472062013-08-23 Disparity and Convergence: Chinese Provincial Government Health Expenditures Pan, Jay Wang, Peng Qin, Xuezheng Zhang, Shufang PLoS One Research Article The huge regional disparity in government health expenditures (GHE) is a major policy concern in China. This paper addresses whether provincial GHE converges in China from 1997 to 2009 using the economic convergence framework based on neoclassical economic growth theory. Our empirical investigation provides compelling evidence of long-term convergence in provincial GHE within China, but not in short-term. Policy implications of these empirical results are discussed. Public Library of Science 2013-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3747206/ /pubmed/23977049 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071474 Text en © 2013 Pan et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title_full_unstemmed Disparity and Convergence: Chinese Provincial Government Health Expenditures
title_short Disparity and Convergence: Chinese Provincial Government Health Expenditures
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23977049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071474
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