In this article, we provide a comprehensive overview of the role that health plays in economic develop­ment. We study … cross-country differences in income and health and examine the underused value-of-­life and life-year gain measures. In … structure for understanding the role that health plays in the process of economic development …

from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people … inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a significant fraction of the economic activity in the developing world …

This paper analyzes macroeconomic growth of the economies in Southeast Asia since the end of the Second World War. It … than what it was at the end of the Second World War. However, the convergence of development strategy did not take place in … closest economies in the world, adopted similar strategy in the late 1980s and eventually opened up its economy in 2010. The …