State Capacity and Health Outcomes: Comparing Argentina’s and Chile’s Reduction of Infant and Maternal Mortality, 1960–2013

Brieba, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.08.011

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“…First, delivery capacity is related to the provision of public goods; in this case, the capacity of health systems to deal with the epidemic. Consequently, certain variables are used which reflect investment in state capacity in health, understanding investment as the assignment of scarce resources, whether they be monetary, technical or political to improve a specific area ( Brieba, 2018 ). Coordination capacity, on the other hand, is evaluated with respect to the coordination between the central administration, and regional and local governments.…”

Section: State Capacity and Crisis Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolution and early government responses to COVID-19 in South America

González‐Bustamante

2021

World Development

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Highlights Four categories of countries can be identified based on suppression strategy measures and testing and tracing policies. Uruguay and Paraguay have managed to contain the pandemic, while Brazil and Peru appear to be overwhelmed in mid-May. The pressure on the health systems is evaluated with early projections and a novel burden index. State capacity variables are incorporated in the analysis of early responses based on Cox proportional hazards models. Expenditure on health, regional and local government capacity, and the burden index accelerate stringent interventions.

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Section: State Capacity and Crisis Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolution and early government responses to COVID-19 in South America

González‐Bustamante

2021

World Development

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“…The use of capacity as a framing device and organising concept extends beyond development practice into academic research. For example, Brieba (2018) studies the evolution of Argentina and Chile's performance on infant and maternal mortality indicators, and finds that ‘investments in state capacity’ – used synonymously with development of the health system – were key to Chile's superior performance. An et al .…”

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Beyond state capacity: bureaucratic performance, policy implementation and reform

Williams

2020

Journal of Institutional Economics

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There is a broad consensus that state capacity is central to economic and institutional development. But while the concept originated as a tool for macro-historical and comparative analysis, its success has led the term ‘capacity’ to become a default metaphor for discussing the quality of government bureaucracies. This paper discusses the limitations to conceiving of narrower questions of bureaucratic performance and policy implementation through the lens of the broad, aggregate concept of capacity. Whereas capacity refers to bureaucracies' hypothetical potential, this usually differs from their actual actions due to internal information and incentive problems created by bureaucracies' collective nature, and the constraints and uncertainty imposed by their multiple political principals. Capacity is a convenient shorthand term and is appropriate for some purposes, but it achieves this convenience by abstracting away from the mechanisms that determine bureaucratic performance and policy implementation. To advance the study of bureaucratic quality, researchers should seek to understand the implications of bureaucracies' collective nature, engage with contextual specificity and contingency in policy implementation, and focus measurement and reform efforts more towards actual performance than hypothetical capacity.

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“…Producto de lo anterior, subsisten tendencias de largo plazo que no han sido identificadas, o no han recibido suficiente atención. Asimismo, la evolución de las diferencias de mortalidad a nivel regional no ha sido analizada en profundidad para el largo plazo, salvo algunas excepciones 4,30 . Con todo, el propósito de este estudio es entregar una visión de largo plazo de la evolución de la mortalidad general e infantil en Chile en el último siglo, así como identificar algunos de los principales hechos que las han caracterizado, enfatizando en particular en la evolución de la mortalidad infantil, tanto a nivel nacional como regional.…”

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