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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: World Bank e-Library.