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UNINA9910824237403321 |
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Titolo |
Health and growth / / edited by Michael Spence and Maureen Lewis |
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Washington, DC : , : World Bank, , [2009] |
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copyright 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-12157-X |
9786612121579 |
0-8213-7660-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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xxiv, 189 pages : illustrations ; ; 26 cm |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SpenceMichael <1943-> |
LewisMaureen A. <1952-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medical economics |
Medical care - Finance |
Public health administration |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Workshop Participants; About the Editors and Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Health Investments and Economic Growth: Macroeconomic Evidence and Microeconomic Foundations; Figures; 2 Health and Economic Growth: Policy Reports and the Making of Policy; Tables; 3 Population Health and Economic Growth; 4 Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth; 5 Disease and Development: Evidence from Hookworm Eradication in the American South; 6 Early Life Nutrition and Subsequent Education, Health, Wage, and Intergenerational Effects; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book containes a series of "state of the art" essays on topics related to health and growth. The Commission on Growth and Development (CGD)--in preparing its own Growth Report--wished to take stock of the current state of knowledge and understanding of economic growth, and thus commissioned a series of essays on a range of thematic areas. One such area is health. The following questions are discussed in the book:Does investing in health raise economic growth? Can governments achieve rapid growth or high incomes without |
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