The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes …, health care utilization, and non-medical household consumption. The use of panel data collected before and after the … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …

Inequalities in health have recently started to receive a good deal of attention in the developing world. But how large … inequalities in health across countries. The author explores the reasons for these inter-country differences, and concludes that … large inequalities in health, are not apparently associated with large inequalities in income, or with small shares of …

The Millennium Development Goals set quantitative targets for poverty reduction and improvements in health, education … in health, education, and the environment. Both estimates yield a figure in the range of $40-$70 billion in additional … health or education and related outcomes, or the relationship between investment and growth, the sensitivity of the results …

Empirical studies on health at a disaggregate level-by socioeconomic group or geographic location-can provide useful … information for designing poverty-focused interventions. Using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, the author investigates … the determinants of health outcomes in low-income countries both at the national level, and for rural and urban areas …

filtering its benefits to all elements of Indian society, including the poor and the possessors of traditional knowledge. The … schemes for traditional knowledge will extend the benefits of intellectual property rights to the poorest members of society …

literature, the paper seeks to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the …

The authors present a model of endogenous growth in which the main engine of economic development is knowledge. Using a … sector, their model incorporates two key aspects of knowledge: technology and human capital. Steady-state equilibrium …