Technology and politics have thrust the world more closely together than ever before. The
benefits of globalization are potentially enormous, as a result of the increased sharing of …

Background There is growing international acceptance that effective investments in health
are vital to human development and economic growth Health is receiving heightened …

The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH) was established by World Health
Organization Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland in January 2000 to assess the place …

Among Africa’ s problems, chronic poverty and poor health stand out. Traditional
development thinking has maintained that health improvements are a consequence of …

Wide-ranging reforms in health sector have been aggressively promoted by multilateral
institutions, particularly the World Bank, in the last two decades in the developing and …

The desirability of improving the health of the global poor is little in doubt. The dramatic
devastation from HIV/AIDS in parts of Africa has brought the enormous gaps in the health …

Printed on Demand. Contact books@ worldbank. org, if currently unavailable. QUOTEThis
book fills an important and large gap in the market for health economics textbooks. It is more …

The impact of increased national wealth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), on
public health is widely understood, however an equally important but less well-acclaimed …

Yet what is less well known is the chronic economic drag from poor health each yearabout
15 percent lower GDP from premature death and lost productivity. For example, in low …

O ne of the United States' preeminent economists told a Wilson Center audience that the
international community must address shortcomings in global health if it is serious about …