Documents and Presentations - IADB / PAHO - Senior Policy Seminar
"Health, Human Capital and Economic Growth: Theory, Evidence and Policies"

October 3-4, 2002
PAHO/WHO Headquarters
Washington, D.C., USA

DOCUMENTS AND PRESENTATIONS

Sessions and Discussions: Session I   Session II   Session III   Session IV   Session V   Session VI

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SESSIONS AND DISCUSSIONS

• Session I: "Health, Human Capital and Economic Growth: Theory, Evidence and Policies"

Speaker	Background Documents	Presentations
Nancy Birdsall Center for Global Development	Key Notes	Audio File

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• Session II: "Nutrition, Health Human Evolution and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence"

Speaker	Background Documents	Presentations
Robert Fogel University of Chicago	"Nutrition, Physiological Capital, and Economic Growth"
Discussant / Commentator: Ginés Gonzáles García - Minister of Health, Argentina

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• Session III: "Health, Human Capital and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries"

Speaker	Background Documents	Presentations
Suchit Arora Consultant	"Health, Human Productivity, and Long Term Economic Growth" The Journal of Economic History. Vol. 61. No.3. September, 2001. (by subscription only)	Slide
David Mayer CIDE, Mexico	(See related documents)	Slide
Discussant / Commentator: Oded Galor - Brown University, Transcript  Gustavo Yamada - Interamerican Development Bank, Transcript
Other related documents: Oded Galor and David Mayer "Food for Thought: Basic Needs and Persistent Educational Inequality". Health and Economic Growth. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). 2002. http://www.paho.org/English/DPM/SHD/HP/Mayer-Galor.pdf David Mayer Foulkes. "Global Divergence". August, 2002. http://www.paho.org/English/hdp/hdd/Mayer-Foulkes.pdf David Mayer, Humberto Mora, Rodolfo Cerreño, Ana Barona and Suzanne Duryeau. "Health, Growth and Income Distribution in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Study of Determinants and Regional and Local Behavior". Regional Competitions, Investment in Health and Economic Growth No. 18. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). April, 2000. http://www.paho.org/English/DPM/SHD/HP/series18composite.pdf Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). "Investment in health. Social and economic returns". Scientific and Technical Publication No. 582*. Washington DC, 2001. This publication can be obtained at: http://publications.paho.org/english/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=622

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• Session IV: "Investing in Health for Economic Development: Evidence"

Speaker	Background Documents	Presentations
Philip Musgrove Fogarty International Center	Executive Summary of "Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development" - Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health.
Sanjeev Gupta International Monetary Fund	"Public Spending on Health Care and the Poor"   "The effectiveness of government spending on education and health care in developing and transition economics"
Discussant / Commentator: Alok Bhargava - University of Houston Eduardo Lora - Interamerican Development Bank,  Transcript
Other related documents: Gupta, Sanjeev, Verhoeven, Marijn, and Tiongson, Erwin. "Public Spending on Health Care and the Poor". Health Economics. Forthcoming in Health Economics. A previous version of this document can be found at: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2001/wp01127.pdf

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• Session V: "Endogenous Economic Growth Theory: Health, Human Capital and Economic Growth; Income Convergence and Poverty Traps"

Speaker	Background Documents	Presentations
Peter Howitt Brown University	"R&D, Implementation and Stagnation: A Schumpeterian Theory of Convergence Clubs"	Slide   Transcript
Adriaan Van Zon Maastricht University	"Health, Education and Endogenous Growth"	Slide
Discussant / Commentator: Timothy Lane - International Monetary Fund Luis Riveros - Universidad de Chile
Other related documents: Robert Barro. "Health and economic growth". Health and Economic Growth. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). 1996 http://www.paho.org/English/DPM/SHD/HP/barro.pdf

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• Session VI: "Panel on "Investment in Human Capital, Economic Growth and Social Development: Policies and Research Agenda"

Speaker	Presentations
Sanjeev Gupta International Monetary Fund
Emmanuel Jimenez The World Bank
Rachel Nugent The Fogarty International Center
Omar Arias Interamerican Development Bank
Juan Antonio Casas Pan American Health Organization	Slide
Chair: George A. O. Alleyne - PAHO Director

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CLOSING REMARKS

George A.O. Alleyne PAHO Director

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