ACCESS Health Collaborates on Think20 Policy Brief

Maulik Chokshi, Deputy India Director (Technical), Arun B Nair, Technical Lead (Healthcare Financing), and Tushar Mokashi, Assistant Director (Health Systems), recently published a Policy Brief for Think20 (T20) titled Institutions, Fiscal Space, and Social Health Protection which examines the institutional determinants of fiscal space in G20 countries during 2005-2021.

This brief was written in collaboration with a team from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, under Task Force 1 of T20: Macroeconomics, Trade, and Livelihoods: Policy Coherence and International Coordination. T20 is a global network of think tanks that provide policy recommendations on various issues to the G20, an international forum for governments and central bank governors.

The policy brief explores the relationship between fiscal space and investment in the health sector. The brief also looks at the institutional determinants of fiscal space in the G20 countries during 2005-2021 and establishes that country-specific institutions determine the evolution of the budgetary space.

You can read the policy brief here