Moreover, the raised expenditure of medical services due to the shortage of village doctors might increase the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure and household impoverishment in rural areas, which are also opposite to the goals of the healthcare reform [ 53, 54].
Aligne and Stoddard estimated that exposure to SHS raises expenditures on children's health care by $203 to $284 per year in 2007 dollars [ 13].
Urging Hollande not to run again, Montebourg said his project would include measures to end austerity while raising expenditure, reverse tax increases of the last five years, fight globalisation and restructure the EU which had "practically become a failed company".
By constantly raising expenditure to meet the demands of his biggest constituency, the poor, the incentive to constrain demand on the government to those items that are economically feasible has been severely weakened.
Renren said it had to raise expenditure on marketing to $17.4m, a 78% increase from last year, mainly on its daily deals site Nuomi.com.
In terms of employment, raising expenditure on the policy cluster by US$1,000 [PPP] per unemployed would boost the overall employment rate by around two percentage points and the employment rate of the low skilled by 5.7 percentage points.
In addition, we are working alongside the government in an attempt to get him to raise expenditure on health to $15 per capita and leverage with all development partners to step up their contribution to health financing.
The extended coverage of medical insurance improved older people's access to healthcare services (Freeman et al. 2008; Wagstaff et al. 2009), increased the utilization rate of healthcare services (Decker and Rentier 2004; Liu et al. 2011), and raised the expenditures on healthcare (Davis 1991; Meer and Rosen 2004).
This reflected the increasing use of generic drugs and could explain why most of the new entrants were considered 'new products (generic).' Additionally, prescription changes raised statin expenditures slightly due to an increased use of relatively expensive ingredients (Ingredient Mix effect).
TWO out of three African countries have substantially increased military spending over the past decade; the continent as a whole raised military expenditure by 65% during that period, after it had stagnated for the previous 15 years.
