mortality below age forty generates productivity gains, which in turn may explain why the positive correlation between health …This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose … a unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both the rate of improvement of health and the level of …

health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life … hope that economic growth will improve people's health as well as their material living conditions. I argue that the … poverty reduction, there is no evidence that it will deliver automatic health improvements in the absence of appropriate …

health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life … hope that economic growth will improve people's health as well as their material living conditions. I argue that the … poverty reduction, there is no evidence that it will deliver automatic health improvements in the absence of appropriate …

income change and health indicators. Using data on life expectancy, infant mortality and income for a small subset of largely …This paper discusses historical and recent cross-country evidence relating income to measures of health. After a review … wealthy countries over the 1913-1999 period, the paper examines correlations between income and health at period start and end …