Formula funding of public services
The use of formulae has become widespread in recent years across most developed countries. In the UK, a conservative estimate is that annually £150 billion of public service expenditure is distributed using formulae, in services such as health care, local government, social security and higher educa...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Taylor & Francis
2007
2006. |
| Series: | Routledge studies in business organization and networks ;
41. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433700206719 |
Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Setting the scene; 2 Formula funding within a public finance framework; 3 The elements of formula funding; 4 Formula funding: a production function perspective; 5 Empirical methods; 6 Budgetary risk and formula funding; 7 Paying for quality: The case of UK general practitioners; 8 The political economy of formula funding; 9 Concluding comments; Technical appendix A: Some mathematics of risk pooling; Technical appendix B: Calculating measures of local health care supply
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