Tax Reform and Resource Mobilization for Health

Governance and Leadership, Publications, Resource Mobilization

Resource Type: Report Authors: Shan Soe-Lin, Sasha Frankel, Eunice Heredia-Ortiz, and Marty Makinen Published: 12/01/2015 Resource Description: As development assistance for health shrinks and the demand for health expenditures increases, developing countries are under mounting pressure to provide adequate resources for health. Governments can increase available public resources by benefiting from overall economic growth, borrowing, making efficiency […]

Government Health Spending and Tax Reform in Rwanda, 2000-2013 – A Case Study

Governance and Leadership, Health Finance, Publications, Resource Mobilization

Rwanda provides an example of a country that has been committed to improving both its tax and health systems. Moreover, Rwanda has recognized the critical linkage between domestic resource mobilization and sustainable economic development, including increasing public financing for health.

Mobilizing Tax Revenue and Prioritizing Health Spending in El Salvador – A Case Study

Governance and Leadership, Publications, Resource Mobilization

El Salvador provides an important example of a country that underwent tax reform efforts, which boosted revenues to finance key social development programs, including health. Two decades after the end of the civil war and its return to democracy in 1992

Tax Reform as a Strategy to Mobilize Additional Resources for Health

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As development assistance for health shrinks and the demand for health expenditures increases, developing countries are under mounting pressure to provide adequate resources for health. Governments can increase available public resources by benefiting from overall economic growth, borrowing, making efficiency gains, and reforming tax laws and improving tax administration, among others. Tax Reform and Resource […]

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Tax Reform and Resource Mobilization for Health

Government Health Spending and Tax Reform in Rwanda, 2000-2013 – A Case Study

Mobilizing Tax Revenue and Prioritizing Health Spending in El Salvador – A Case Study

Tax Reform as a Strategy to Mobilize Additional Resources for Health