By summarizing recent evidence and regional trends, this series is designed to provide Bhutan’s policymakers a digestible resource through which to better understand and respond to existing as well as...
This issue brief provides an introductory assessment of efficiency (and inefficiency) in Bhutan’s health financing system understood simply as health outputs and outcomes per given input. Through a comparison...
This issue brief provides an overview of Bhutan’s current macro-fiscal trajectory and summarizes the linkages between emergent macro-fiscal challenges and sustainable health financing in the country as...
The aftereffects of the coronavirus pandemic coupled with a worsening global economic outlook mean that the sustainability of Bhutan’s public spending is now an area of particular concern. Accordingly...
Bhutan is experiencing a rapid process of population ageing and a related shift in mortality and burden attributable to noncommunicable diseases. This brief first highlights the health financing challenges...
Between 2001 and 2019, Bhutan made significant economic progress with an average annual growth rate of 7 percent. This progress was accompanied by significant improvements in monetary and nonmonetary standards...