development challenges of improving health, raising productivity, and fighting poverty. Topics are organized into five themes …

"The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between … the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … variations in affecting environmental conditions at the time of birth and determining the health outcomes of young children in …

"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 …

health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …