The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

By W. Keech. Business Economics, 2014

731 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In General Health Professions

1. Lucie Gadenne
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3. Sam Jones

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2. F. Tarp
3. Sam Jones

Citations in the corpus

• Democracy and State Capacity: Complements or Substitutes? (2015, neutral): “As noted by Ross (2006) and Deaton (2013), infant mortality is a function of many different factors, such as nutrition, access to health care, clean water, air quality, and female education and literacy.”
• Tax me, but spend wisely? Sources of public finance and government accountability (2015, background): “…revenues may not be spent as well as tax revenues has long been discussed by policy practitioners and researchers alike (OECD, 2010a, Besley and Persson, 2011, Deaton, 2013) but technical aid on revenue-raising management has always been the poor cousin of official development aid (OECD, 2010b).”
• Chinese aid and local corruption (2018, neutral): “transformative impact and that it may even act as to worsen institutions and thereby be harmful for development (e.g. Easterly 2006; Deaton, 2013).”
• Making Progress on Foreign Aid (2015, neutral): “When local conditions are hostile to development, aid is not useful, and it will do harm if it perpetuates those conditions” (Deaton 2013).”
• Does foreign aid harm political institutions (2015, methodology): “A number of scholars consider the hypothesis that aid weakens the quality of political institutions to be pertinent (e.g., Rajan and Subramanian, 2007; Deaton, 2013).”
• Beyond Technology: Demand-Side Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation (2016, background): “Conventional models of development have usually focused on increased economic growth and mobilizing new technologies without considering the local and global environmental consequences and social (and distributional) costs associated with the growth pathways (109).”