Based on careful analysis of burden of disease and the costs ofinterventions, this second
edition of'Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition'highlights …

Poverty and ill-health are intertwined. Poor countries tend to have worse health outcomes
than better-off countries. Within countries, poor people have worse health outcomes than …

We use cross-national data to examine the impact of both public spending on health and
non-health factors (economic, educational, cultural) in determining child (under-5) and infant …

Social sectors in an economy are often characterized by market failures. To correct such
failures, governments intervene through the public provision, financing, and regulation of …

Latin America and the Caribbean has been one of the regions of the world with the greatest
inequality. This book explores why the region suffers from such persistent inequality …

Recent studies show that corruption is associated with higher military spending [Eur. J. Polit.
Econ. 17 (2001) 794] and lower government spending on education and health care [J …

Using panel data from 118 developing countries in 1971–2000, this paper explores the
channels linking social spending, human capital, and growth and compares the effects of …

Well-meaning national and international bureaucracies dispense foreign aid under
conditions in which bureaucracy fails. The environment that created aid bureaucracies led …

The appropriate allocation of resources to referral hospitals within a national health system
has long been a controversial issue in health system planning in developing countries …

This paper examines the relationship between country health spending and selected health
outcomes (infant mortality and child mortality), using data from 133 low and middle-income …