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. 2019 Nov 13:367:l5706.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.l5706.

Back to the future? Health and the World Bank's human capital index

Felix Stein  1 , Devi Sridhar  1
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Back to the future? Health and the World Bank's human capital index

Felix Stein et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Felix Stein and Devi Sridhar warn of the dangers of subsuming health to economic productivity

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare. This work was supported by Wellcome Trust [106635/Z/14/Z]. A former senior member of the World Bank is on our project’s advisory board

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World Bank’s cascade approach
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