Informal Payments for Health Care in the Former Soviet Union: Some Evidence from Kazakhstan
Author(s)
Ensor, Tim; Savelyeva, Larisa
Abstract
Reviews some of the causes of the growth in the informal (or under-the-table) medical economy; examines types of payments and the scant empirical evidence on their extent in Kazakhstan; discusses policy implications and suggests questions that could be addressed in future research; since 1991, chiefly.