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The Impact of the World Bank on Healthcare Reform in Turkey

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This chapter analyses the role of the World Bank in Turkey’s healthcare reform in order to understand how and to what extent the global healthcare reform agenda was able to make its way into healthcare policy circles in Turkey. This chapter investigates the historical and ongoing institutional ties between the World Bank and successive Turkish governments in the healthcare policy domain. The chapter offers insights into the World Bank experts’ subjective understanding of the World Bank’s reform proposals and the HTP.

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Yılmaz, V. (2017). The Impact of the World Bank on Healthcare Reform in Turkey. In: The Politics of Healthcare Reform in Turkey. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53667-5_5

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