Publication: Fiscal Space for Health in the Kyrgyz Republic
Date
2019-05-21
ISSN
Published
2019-05-21
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
This report is organized into five
chapters. Chapter one provides an estimate of the relative
efficiency position of the Kyrgyz Republic based on its
health outcomes and health expenditure. It is then analyzed
to understand whether the sector is mostly in need of
additional funding or needs to spend more effectively, or a
combination of both. Chapter two derives the base fiscal
space scenario: what the health sector can hope for given
macroeconomic projections, expectations of external funding,
and options to reprioritize health in the budget. These
options do not require any specific action short of some
active lobbying to drag more resources toward health over
arguments that the country overall would gain by getting
more. Chapter three examines potential new sources of funds
through feasibly and sustainably raising new domestic
revenues for health or sources of budgetary savings that
will come from limiting financing responsibilities of the
health sector. Reforms needed mostly involve the general
government as they imply changes in taxes or benefits.
Citation
“World Bank. 2019. Fiscal Space for Health in the Kyrgyz Republic; Fiscal Space for Health in the Kyrgyz Republic. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/32104 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”