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Health Care in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland – the medium term fiscal aspects
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PETER MIHALYI
Articles from this author:
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Inflation Rather Than Austerity – Hungary’s Economic Strategy
“Since 1968, subsequent Hungarian governments have been less resilient to moderate inflation than others in the region. After the 1989-1990 market transition, inflation targeting became an even more important short-term policy tool. Since hyper-inflation was not allowed to gain momentum, there was no need to resort to fully-fledged currency reform. Instead, Hungarian governments have been … Continued
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Inflation Rather Than Austerity – Hungary’s Economic Strategy
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RYSZARD PETRU
The paper provides perspective of recent developments in health care reforms in three fast-reforming transition economies: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. The two former countries have been implementing reforms since early 1990s, while Poland started its reform on January 1, 1999 only. But the reforms are not over: in all three countries further changes are envisaged. The objective of this paper is to assess the current situation from a fiscal perspective. This, of course, is not the only criterion, but still vital enough to deserve careful analysis.
This paper was prepared for the research project No. P 96-6089-R (ACE PHARE Programme 1996) on “The Medium and Long-term Perspectives of Fiscal Adjustment of Selected Central European Countries”.