Health Spending in Japan : Macro-Fiscal Implications and Reform Options /
Health spending has risen rapidly in Japan. We find two-thirds of the spending increase over 1990-2011 resulted from ageing, and the rest from excess cost growth. The spending level will rise further: ageing alone will raise it by 3 1/2 percentage points of GDP over 2010-30, and excess cost growth a...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2015
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| Series: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
no. 14/142 |
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