health outcomes are a prerequisite to breaking out of the poverty cycle. This book on poverty and health, jointly published …Investment in health is a strategically important and often underestimated component of economic development. This … study sets out a systematic approach to improving health in poor countries. For emerging countries, substantially improved …

The gap between rich and poor keeps widening. Growth, if any, has disproportionally benefited higher income groups … while lower income households have been left behind. This long-run increase in income inequality not only raises social and … the rest of society. Lower income people have been prevented from realising their human capital potential, which is bad …