Disease and Development: A Reply to Bloom, Canning, and Fink

Beginning in the 1940s, a wave of health innovations and more effective international public health measures led to a rapid and large improvement in health; for example, in some relatively poor countries, life expectancy at birth quickly rose from around 40 years to over 60 years. In Acemoglu and Jo...

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Main Authors: Acemoglu, K. Daron, Johnson, Simon
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109196
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