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 …

is adequately pro-poor, shared, or inclusive. Less noticed is that improvements in children's health are accelerating …, too. This paper examines the extent to which these health improvements are equitably shared or "inclusive." We use a … America. We draw two principal conclusions. First, within countries, health improvements often have a different distribution …