"This paper reviews the correlations and potential links between health and economic growth and summarizes the evidence … on the role of government in improving health status. At the macroeconomic level, the evidence of an impact of health on … growth remains ambiguous due both to difficulties in measuring health, and to the methodological challenges of identifying …

This report translates the Bank's corporate commitment into increased efforts to control malaria. It lays the basis for … a Booster Program for Malaria Control, through which the Bank will make an important contribution to malaria control in … service organizations, specialized agencies, and financiers of malaria control at all levels. Consistent with the new Global …

and to enable the World Bank to play its expected role in scaling up and sustaining malaria control interventions to reach … the new ambitious but achievable global goal set by the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, of eliminating malaria as a … major public health problem in Africa by 2015. The Bank has subscribed fully to this agenda, as illustrated by statements …

-specific interventions, but also exploring costs for a selected number of nutrition-sensitive interventions implemented outside of the health … health, social protection, education, and agriculture sectors. …