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" Health and growth / "
edited by Michael Spence and Maureen Lewis.
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BL
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1028988
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b783358
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Health and growth /\ edited by Michael Spence and Maureen Lewis.
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, DC :: World Bank,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xxiv, 189 pages)
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| ISBN
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0821376594
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: 0821376608
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: 6612121572
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: 9780821376591
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: 9780821376607
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: 9786612121579
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9780821376591
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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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.
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Medical care-- Finance.
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Medical economics.
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Public health administration.
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Medical care-- Finance.
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Medical economics.
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Public health administration.
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338.4/33621
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RA410.H37 2009eb
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Lewis, Maureen A.,1952-
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Spence, Michael,1943-
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