03087oam 22006495 450 991077803360332120200520144314.01-282-12157-X97866121215790-8213-7660-810.1596/978-0-8213-7659-1(CKB)1000000000786149(EBL)459705(OCoLC)560643062(SSID)ssj0000087276(PQKBManifestationID)11998972(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000087276(PQKBWorkID)10052538(PQKB)11142210(MiAaPQ)EBC459705(Au-PeEL)EBL459705(CaPaEBR)ebr10309168(The World Bank)2009005640(US-djbf)15643126(EXLCZ)99100000000078614920090302d2009 uf 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHealth and growth /edited by Michael Spence and Maureen LewisWashington, DC :World Bank,[2009]copyright 2009.xxiv, 189 pages illustrations ;26 cmIncludes index.0-8213-7659-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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 investing in health? What are the options and benefits of different anWorld Bank e-Library.Medical economicsMedical careFinancePublic health administrationMedical economics.Medical careFinance.Public health administration.338.4/33621Spence Michael1943-125035Lewis Maureen A.1952-1530843DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910778033603321Health and growth3776207UNINA