| Contents |
| Preface |
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| Getting There |
| How to accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development
Goals |
| Mark Baird and Sudhir Shetty |
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| Checking Up on Health |
| A chart-based description of the world's health trends |
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| Health, Wealth, and Welfare |
| New evidence and a wider perspective suggest sizable economic
returns to better health |
| David E. Bloom, David Canning, and Dean T. Jamison |
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| Making Health Care Accountable |
The new focus on performance-based funding of health services
in developing countries |
| Robert Hecht, Amie Batson, and Logan Brenzel |
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| New Antimalarial Drugs: Biology and Economics Meet |
| Ways to stop or slow the spread of drug-resistant strains of
malaria |
| Kenneth J. Arrow |
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| Medicines, Patents, and TRIPS |
| Has the intellectual property pact opened a Pandora's box for
pharmaceuticals? |
| Arvind Subramanian |
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| Debt Relief and Public Health Spending in Heavily Indebted
Poor Countries |
| Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements, Maria Teresa Guin-Siu, and
Luc Leruth |
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| Making Services Work for Poor People |
| Why the poor need more control over health care and other essential
services |
| Shantayanan Devarajan and Ritva Reinikka |
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| Confronting AIDS |
| Developing countries must face the realities of the epidemic |
| Lyn Squire |
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| Coping with the Impact of AIDS |
| The strain on limited resources |
| Mead Over |
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| Setting Government Priorities in Preventing HIV/AIDS |
| Public policy is an effective weapon |
| Martha Ainsworth |
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| Making AIDS Part of the Global Development Agenda |
| AIDS is a development problem that must be addressed globally |
| Robert Hecht, Olusoji Adeyi, and Iris Semini |
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| Death and Taxes: The Economics of Tobacco Control |
| Tobacco control can have big health benefits without harming
the economy |
| Prabhat Jha, Joy de Beyer, and Peter S. Heller |
