Public health spending is low in emerging and developing economies relative to advanced economies and health outputs … and outcomes need to be substantially improved. Simply increasing public expenditure in the health sector, however, may … not significantly affect health outcomes if the efficiency of this spending is low. This paper quantifies the inefficiency …

linking social spending, human capital, and growth in a system of equations. The paper finds that both education and health … spending have a positive and significant direct impact on the accumulation of education and health capital, and thus can lead …

incidence of education and health spending covering 56 countries over 1960-2000, representing a significant improvement in … paper finds, among other things, that overall education and health spending are poorly targeted; benefits from primary … education and primary health care go disproportionately to the middle class, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, HIPCs and …

out in the last decade by the National Family Health Surveys in India show very little evidence of elderly parent in rural …

Global warming is perceived as one of the biggest global health risks of the twenty-first century and a threat to the … agriculture and more vulnerable to droughts and have a lower adaptive capacity. Furthermore, the health-related impacts of climate …-alone risk factor,’ but rather as an amplifier of existing health and food security risks and an additional strain on …

programs conclusively impact the micronutrient level of targeted children, but have modest and mixed effects on health outcomes …

This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable microdata on as many as 2.24million children …

. Social capital has been associated with many aspects of improvements in health, environment and development. This paper … assesses the theoretical support for a social capital based analysis of environment and health issues with a focus on the water-health …, adequate sanitation and hygiene and the resulting health impacts. Further, we develop a conceptual framework for linking social …