Health and development
Subtitle: a compilation of articles from Finance & development.
Contributors: Clift, Jeremy.; International Monetary Fund.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Medical economics -- Developing countries; Medical economics; International finance; Finance -- Developing countries; Economic assistance -- Developing countries
Other titles: Why investing in health is critical for achieving economic development goals; Health & development; Finance & development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Articles originally published between March 1998 and March 2004.
"Editor, Jeremy Clift"--T.p. verso.
"December 2004."
Table of contents: title: Getting there: how to accelerate progress toward the Millennium development goals -- Mark Baird and Sudhir Shetty; title: Checking up on health --; title: Health, wealth, and welfare: new evidence coupled with a wider perspective suggest sizable economic returns to better health -- David E. Bloom, David Canning, and Dean T. Jamison; title: Making health care accountable: why performance-based funding of health services in developing countries is getting more attention -- Robert Hecht, Amie Batson, and Logan Brenzel; title: New antimalarial drugs: biology and economics meet: a global public goods commission looks at ways to stop or slow the spread of drug-resistant strains of malaria -- Kenneth J. Arrow; title: Medicines, patents, and TRIPS: has the intellectual property pact opened a Pandora's box for the pharmaceuticals industry -- Arvind Subramanian; title: Debt relief and public health spending in heavily indebted poor countries -- Sanjeev Gupta ... [et al.]; title: Making services work for poor people: the poor need more control over essential services -- Shantayanan Devarajan and Ritva Reinikka; title: Confronting AIDS -- Lyn Squire; title: Coping with the impact of AIDS -- Mead Over; title: Setting government priorities in preventing HIV/AIDS -- Martha Ainsworth; title: Making AIDS part of the global development agenda -- Robert Hecht, Olusoji Adeyi, and Iris Semini; title: Death and taxes: the economics of tobacco control -- Prabhat Jha, Joy de Beyer, and Peter S. Heller.