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Healthcare Financing in India During the Post-Reform Period

D. Varatharajan and S. K. Godwin

29.1 Introduction: Setting the Tone

In the history of the global economic development, the 1990s had been a period of cataclysmic change not only in terms of the principles governing operations of the government, but also in terms of the philosophy of the change as well. The efficiency of the economic system to be given priority over equity considerations and the former is expected to take care of the latter in the long run. The slow demise of Keynesian economics and the revival of the Classical and Neo-Classical orthodoxy were the conceptual foundations of the economic changes we witnessed since the mid-1980s till today. India could be currently in ...

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