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This book sets forth both a theory and a comparative empirical
analysis of stagflation, that peculiar combination of high
unemployment, slow growth, and spurts of high inflation bedeviling
the advanced industrial nations during the past fifteen years.
The authors first construct a small macroeconomic model that
takes full account of aggregate demand and supply forces in the
determination of output, employment, and the price level, in both a
single-economy and a multi-economy setting. They then apply the
model to provide an understanding of comparative performance of
industrial countries in the areas of unemployment, inflation,
productivity, and investment growth. They argue convincingly that
the decay of the major economies during this period resulted from
the supply shocks of the 1970s, such as the two major OPEC
oil-price increases, and from the consequent policy-induced
decrease in demand in response to inflationary pressures. Their
analysis differs markedly from similar studies in that it takes
specific account of institutional differences in the labor markets
of the various economies. This helps to explain in particular the
divergent adjustment profiles of the United States and Europe.
Bruno and Sachs make several key recommendations for the mix of
demand management and incomes policies necessary to combat
stagflation in individual countries as well as for the coordination
of macroeconomic policies among the major industrial nations.
As the United States devotes extensive resources to health care,
evaluating how successfully the U.S. system delivers high-quality,
high-value care in an equitable manner is essential. At the request
of Congress, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
annually produces the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) and
the National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR). The reports have
revealed areas in which health care performance has improved over
time, but they also have identified major shortcomings. After five
years of producing the NHQR and NHDR, AHRQ asked the IOM for
guidance on how to improve the next generation of reports. The IOM
concludes that the NHQR and NHDR can be improved in ways that would
make them more influential in promoting change in the health care
system. In addition to being sources of data on past trends, the
national healthcare reports can provide more detailed insights into
current performance, establish the value of closing gaps in quality
and equity, and project the time required to bridge those gaps at
the current pace of improvement. Table of Contents Front Matter
Summary 1 Introduction 2 Re-Envisioning the NHQR and NHDR 3
Updating the Framework for the NHQR and NHDR 4 Adopting a More
Quantitative and Transparent Measure Selection Process 5 Enhancing
Data Resources 6 Improving Presentation of Information 7
Implementing Recommended Changes Acronyms Appendix A: Previous IOM
Recommendations for the National Healthcare Reports Appendix B: Key
Findings of the NHQRs and NHDRs Appendix C: Previous Conceptual
Framework Appendix D: Measurement Opportunities for the Framework's
Components of Quality Care Appendix E: HHS Interagency Workgroup
for the NHQR and NHDR Appendix F: The Expected Population Value of
Quality Indicator Reporting (EPV-QIR): A Framework for Prioritizing
Healthcare Performance Measurement Appendix G: IOM Subcommittee on
Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare
Quality Improvement: Recommendations Appendix H: Additional
Assessments of Data Presentation in the NHQR and NHDR Appendix I:
An Illustrative Funding Example Appendix J: Committee Member and
Staff Biographies
This book considers the phenomenon of the high inflation and negative growth experience processes of the 1970s and 1980. It draws substantially on Bruno's experience in Israel, but also ranges through the past and present experience in Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico) and considers the more recent experience of East European economies. The author looks into the common characteristics of such experiences and their possible curesDSwith some emphasis on the lessons of the Israeli experience in respect of the role of incomes policy and the political economy of stabilization. The discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of stabilization programmes provides an opportunity to blend of a number of disciplines: lessons of economic history, open economy monetary and macro theory, game-theoretic applications to the theory of economic policy design (concepts such as dynamic inconsistency, government reputation, and credibility), and the rationalization of incomes policy.
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