"Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the proportion of private sector households stayed steady at around 10%.
The public sector needs to support demand, not reduce it, until such time as the private sector – households and firms – regains the confidence to spend and invest.
He worries that if there is no flow of wages from the corporate sector, households will be hit by a one-two punch of a higher sales tax and rising prices, freezing personal consumption.
Given the government has virtually no control over the foreign component, a surplus will usually be accompanied by a reduction in savings in the domestic private sector (households and businesses) as they pay more in tax than the government is spending into the private economy.
The other is Tobin-Brainard (pdf), which portrays the financial system in terms of a portfolio equilibrium, in which each sector — households, banks, firms, etc. — choose the mixes of assets and liabilities they want to hold, and asset prices adjust to make these choices consistent.
Research released in April of this year shows it will take an average of an additional $7 billion per year for the next decade from national governments, donors, the private sector, households, and innovating financing mechanisms to reach the global nutrition targets.
On the demand side, although the scheme is aimed at the informal sector, households who are employed in the formal sector were more likely to be members of the CHF.
No other micro- or community-based health insurance schemes operated in VimoSEWA's coverage areas at the time of this survey and very few informal sector households (in Gujarat and India) hold any other voluntary private health insurance policiesa.
The challenges of expanding health insurance coverage in Lao PDR have been discussed elsewhere, but include a small formal sector, challenges getting informal sector households to enroll in CBHI; lack of trust in the health care system; and other factors [ 14, 15].
