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This book investigates issues related to health inequality with a particular interest on developing countries. It provides rigorous empirical work on both trends and causal factors behind health inequality, analyzes the implications of health deprivations on poverty traps and suggests practical policies which can be implemented.
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
MARK MCGILLIVRAY is Research Chair in International Development at the Alfred Deakin Research Institute. His previous positions include Chief Economist of the Australian Agency for International Development and Deputy Director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University. Mark's research interests include aid allocation and effectiveness, measuring multidimensional well-being achievement and international inequality in well-being
INDRANIL DUTTA is currently a Brooks World Poverty Institute Lecturer in Economics at the University of Manchester. Prior to this he was a Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University. His primary research interests are mainly in the area deprivation and inequality. His papers have been published in the Journal of Health Economics, Economica and Mathematical Social Sciences
DAVID LAWSON is a Lecturer at The Institute for Development Policy and Management and senior research fellow/faculty associate with The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) and Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of Manchester. He has extensive developing country experience and his research interests are in development economics, but more specifically applied microeconometric analysis, and poverty dynamics, in relation to health and gender. He has published in leading development journals consulted extensively for the World Bank and DFID andis on the WHO Scientific Resource Group on Equity Analysis and Research. He is lead editor of 'What Works for The Poorest: Poverty Reduction Programmes for the Ultra Poor' (2010), Practical Action
INDRANIL DUTTA is currently a Brooks World Poverty Institute Lecturer in Economics at the University of Manchester. Prior to this he was a Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University. His primary research interests are mainly in the area deprivation and inequality. His papers have been published in the Journal of Health Economics, Economica and Mathematical Social Sciences
DAVID LAWSON is a Lecturer at The Institute for Development Policy and Management and senior research fellow/faculty associate with The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) and Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of Manchester. He has extensive developing country experience and his research interests are in development economics, but more specifically applied microeconometric analysis, and poverty dynamics, in relation to health and gender. He has published in leading development journals consulted extensively for the World Bank and DFID andis on the WHO Scientific Resource Group on Equity Analysis and Research. He is lead editor of 'What Works for The Poorest: Poverty Reduction Programmes for the Ultra Poor' (2010), Practical Action
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Inequality and Development
Editors: Mark McGillivray, Indranil Dutta, David Lawson
Series Title: Studies in Development Economics and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304673
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-28065-6Published: 17 November 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32779-9Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30467-3Published: 17 November 2010
Series ISSN: 1754-9604
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 200
Topics: Politics of the Welfare State, Social Policy, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Development Economics, Health Economics, Development Studies