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Why Investing in Health is
Critical for Achieving Economic
Developmnental Goals


A compilation of Articles from Finance & Development
©2004 International Monetary Fund
December 2004


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Contents
Preface
Getting There
How to accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goals
Mark Baird and Sudhir Shetty
Checking Up on Health
A chart-based description of the world's health trends
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
Making Health Care Accountable
The new focus on performance-based funding of health services in developing countries
Robert Hecht, Amie Batson, and Logan Brenzel
New Antimalarial Drugs: Biology and Economics Meet
Ways to stop or slow the spread of drug-resistant strains of malaria
Kenneth J. Arrow
Medicines, Patents, and TRIPS
Has the intellectual property pact opened a Pandora's box for pharmaceuticals?
Arvind Subramanian
Debt Relief and Public Health Spending in Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements, Maria Teresa Guin-Siu, and Luc Leruth
Making Services Work for Poor People
Why the poor need more control over health care and other essential services
Shantayanan Devarajan and Ritva Reinikka
Confronting AIDS
Developing countries must face the realities of the epidemic
Lyn Squire
Coping with the Impact of AIDS
The strain on limited resources
Mead Over
Setting Government Priorities in Preventing HIV/AIDS
Public policy is an effective weapon
Martha Ainsworth
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
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