The Design of Incentives for Health Care Providers in Developing Countries : Contracts, Competition, and Cost Control

The authors examine the design and limitations of incentives for health care providers to serve in rural areas in developing countries. Governments face two problems: it is costly to compensate well-trained urban physicians enough to relocate to rural areas, and it is difficult to ensure quality car...

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Main Authors: Hammer, Jeffrey S., Jack, William G.
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19963

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