Population Ageing and Government Health Expenditure (PP 05/01)

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the referees of the paper for their helpful comments.  We would also like to thank participants at both Treasury and Ministry of Health internal seminars.  Staff from the Policy Coordination and Development and the Health sections of the Treasury provided some useful feedback on earlier drafts.

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