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Poverty Objectives and Economic Analysis of Health Projects

In: Development Planning and Poverty Reduction

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  • John Weiss

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As a means of addressing poverty reduction in low-income countries, a focus on primary healthcare has become increasingly common amongst all the main international donors. Unsurprisingly, poor people (that is, those below a national poverty line) tend to have poorer diets and access to sanitary facilities and a significantly lower life expectancy than even the average citizen in a poor country. The issue this brief chapter addresses, is how far recent developments in economic analysis of health projects can assist in ensuring that health project selection is geared to a development agenda that has, as an explicit goal, a large reduction in absolute (and indeed also relative) poverty.

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  • John Weiss, 2003. "Poverty Objectives and Economic Analysis of Health Projects," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: David Potts & Patrick Ryan & Anna Toner (ed.), Development Planning and Poverty Reduction, chapter 15, pages 231-245, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-4374-3_15
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403943743_15
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