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Article: ASIA-HEALTH: SAPS SAP HEALTH CARE
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- September 16, 1995
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Mahesh Uniyal
Inter Press Service English News Wire
09-16-1995
NEW DELHI, Sept. 15 (IPS) -- Government spending on health care
is either stagnant or declining in key South and South East Asian
nations due mainly to World Bank prescribed Structural Adjustment
Programs (SAPs), says the World Health Organization (WHO).
But the region also shows that governments need not relinquish
their health care roles to the market, adds the New Delhi-based
regional office of the U.N.'s health organization.
It estimates that the governments of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma,
DPR Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and
Thailand, spend between one to five percent of their Gross National
Product (GNP) ...