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Evaluating the Impact of Health Programmes on Productivity
dc.contributor.authorKeswell, Malcolmen_US
dc.contributor.authorBurns, Justineen_US
dc.contributor.authorThornton, Rebeccaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-12T19:01:15Z
dc.date.available2014-02-03T16:21:45Zen_US
dc.date.issued2012-12en_US
dc.identifier.citationKeswell, Malcolm; Burns, Justine; Thornton, Rebecca (2012). "Evaluating the Impact of Health Programmes on Productivity." African Development Review 24(4). <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/96396>en_US
dc.identifier.issn1017-6772en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8268en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/96396
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.en_US
dc.titleEvaluating the Impact of Health Programmes on Productivityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelAfrican Studiesen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelInternational Studiesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumMalcolm Keswell, School of Economics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700; e‐mail: malcolm.keswell@uct.ac.za . Justine Burns, School of Economics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700; e‐mail: justine.burns@uct.ac.za . Rebecca Thornton, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 611 Tappan St., 213 Lorch Hall, Ann Arbor, MI, 48106, USA. The authors would like to thank especially the editor David Sahn. They also thank Robert Eastwood, Peter Glick, German Mwabu and Duncan Thomas for useful comments, as well as seminar participants at the AERC Collaborative Research workshop on Health, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction held in Accra, Ghana, 20–22 April 2009.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-8268.12002en_US
dc.identifier.sourceAfrican Development Reviewen_US
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