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Titolo: | Health and growth / / edited by Michael Spence and Maureen Lewis |
Pubblicazione: | Washington, DC : , : World Bank, , [2009] |
copyright 2009 | |
Descrizione fisica: | xxiv, 189 pages : illustrations ; ; 26 cm |
Disciplina: | 338.4/33621 |
Soggetto topico: | Medical economics |
Medical care - Finance | |
Public health administration | |
Altri autori: | SpenceMichael <1943-> LewisMaureen A. <1952-> |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 investing in health? What are the options and benefits of different an |
Titolo autorizzato: | Health and growth |
ISBN: | 1-282-12157-X |
9786612121579 | |
0-8213-7660-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910824237403321 |
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