developing countries that help generate domestic innovation and knowledge-driven growth by promoting more active technology … greater value extraction to stimulate knowledge-based entrepreneurship and growth in developing countries. The paper presents …

health. For this reason, developing countries often do not have the budget to update their estimates of poverty and health …

caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic … health has been quite limited; and (ii) provides evidence of significant synergies among adequate food, child care, and … environment and health …

A long literature in demography debates the importance of place for health. This paper assesses whether the importance … sanitation an important mechanism by which population density in?uences health outcomes? The paper uses newly assembled data sets …, international child-level data set of 172 Demographic and Health Surveys, matched to census population density data for 1 …

Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental … a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes gradually affect child health, so it is helpful to use alternative tools …

This paper looks at differential progress on the health Millennium Development Goals between the poor and better …-off within countries. The findings are based on original analysis of 235 Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator … Cluster Surveys, spanning 64 developing countries over the period 1990-2011. Five health status indicators and seven …

This survey of the state of research on relations between health and economic development discusses first research on … how development affects health and then research on how health affects development. Central assumptions include: (A …) Health is produced by households, along with a number of other valued goods, as a function of the resources the household has …

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 …