France: Selected Issues

April 17, 1997

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France: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed September 27, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper reviews developments in health care spending in France and discusses the recent measures to improve the functioning of the system and contain costs. It argues that by addressing many of the issues that had bedeviled past reforms, the new measures offer a reasonable hope of containing France’s health expenditures. The paper presents a brief review of the institutional background and of past trends in health care spending and also offers an analysis of the major forces behind the recent and projected growth in expenditure.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Employment, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Health, Health care, Health care spending, Labor, Social security contributions, Taxes

Keywords: Capital base, Commercial banks, CR, Crédit Agricole, Employment, Employment effect, ERM, Europe, Global, Health care, Health care spending, Income tax, Interest rate differential, ISCR, Monetary policy tightening, Private bank, Rate, Rate of return, Social security contributions, Supply curve, Tax, Tax reduction

Publication Details

Pages:

150
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 1997/019
Stock No:

1FRAEA0011997
ISBN:

9781451813395
ISSN:

1934-7685

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