What's Not Converging? East Asia's Relative Performance in Income, Health, and Education

This paper discusses East Asia's performance in terms of per capita gross domestic product growth rates over the past 40 years and compares that performance to progress primarily on measures of health. It also compares the region to the rest of the world on a set of broader development measures...

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Main Author:	Kenny, Charles
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Health Production I120 Education and Research Institutions: General I200 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Measurement of Economic Growth Aggregate Productivity Cross-Country Output Convergence O470
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4614

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spelling	okr-10986-46142021-04-23T14:02:18Z What's Not Converging? East Asia's Relative Performance in Income, Health, and Education Kenny, Charles Health Production I120 Education and Research Institutions: General I200 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Measurement of Economic Growth Aggregate Productivity Cross-Country Output Convergence O470 This paper discusses East Asia's performance in terms of per capita gross domestic product growth rates over the past 40 years and compares that performance to progress primarily on measures of health. It also compares the region to the rest of the world on a set of broader development measures. It looks at the evidence of East Asian regional and global convergence in health and education, alongside evidence from the region matching global evidence of a comparatively weak link between income growth and health and education growth. This finding is echoed by available within-country evidence from the region. This paper discusses what might be behind these results, suggesting the importance of a few simple supply-side interventions coupled with the spread of demand for health and education services as sufficient to drive quality-of-life convergence. 2012-03-30T07:28:49Z 2012-03-30T07:28:49Z 2008 Journal Article Asian Economic Policy Review 18328105 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4614 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article East Asia
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description	This paper discusses East Asia's performance in terms of per capita gross domestic product growth rates over the past 40 years and compares that performance to progress primarily on measures of health. It also compares the region to the rest of the world on a set of broader development measures. It looks at the evidence of East Asian regional and global convergence in health and education, alongside evidence from the region matching global evidence of a comparatively weak link between income growth and health and education growth. This finding is echoed by available within-country evidence from the region. This paper discusses what might be behind these results, suggesting the importance of a few simple supply-side interventions coupled with the spread of demand for health and education services as sufficient to drive quality-of-life convergence.
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title	What's Not Converging? East Asia's Relative Performance in Income, Health, and Education
title_short	What's Not Converging? East Asia's Relative Performance in Income, Health, and Education
title_full	What's Not Converging? East Asia's Relative Performance in Income, Health, and Education
title_fullStr	What's Not Converging? East Asia's Relative Performance in Income, Health, and Education
title_full_unstemmed	What's Not Converging? East Asia's Relative Performance in Income, Health, and Education
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What's Not Converging? East Asia's Relative Performance in Income, Health, and Education

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