Welcome to the Growth Blog

The Growth Blog is a forum for you - the policy maker, the academic, the student, and the interested citizen of the world - to agree, disagree, or simply to engage current practitioners on policies and issues critical to development. This platform was inspired by the series of meetings that the Commission on Growth and Development held around the world over the course of the last two years. Of the many lessons that emerged in the deliberations, the one that stands out is that inclusive growth requires inclusive thinking, and inclusive discussion.

 

Maureen Lewis's blog

Why blog on health and growth

Submitted by Maureen Lewis on Fri, 06/05/2009 - 15:50.

The controversy over the link between health and growth has spawned a broad range of research. The new volume “Health and Growth” that I edited with Michael Spence lays out some of the methodological, analytic and policy issues surrounding this debate. This blog is meant to enhance that effort to enrich and deepen the analysis and understanding of the topic. And I hope that it will kindle yet more controversy as that further stimulates research and debate. The three issues that appear to especially merit additional debate and discussion are:  (1) the methodological issues and the findings on the macroeconomic side; (2) the link across early childhood development, health status and growth; and, (3) the institutional issues that underlie the relationship between (public) health spending and both performance in health care delivery and the impacts on health status.

 

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