Nancy Birdsall

TL;DR: The authors argued that liberalization of trade regimes and increased foreign investment in Latin America have not associated with pollution-intensive industrial development, and concluded that protected economies are more likely to favor pollution intensive industries, while openness actually encourages cleaner industry through the importation of developed-country pollution standards.

TL;DR: The authors showed that low levels of income inequality may have directly stimulated growth in East Asian economies, and that high-quality basic education and augmenting labor demand also contributed to economic growth.

TL;DR: The fight against poverty has been adopted by the multilateral development banks as their principal objective as discussed by the authors and the emphasis in the international institutions contrasts with disappointing results in the real world, and although life expectancy, school enrollments and other indicators of social wellbeing have improved dramatically across the developing world, although the proportion of the poor has declined in the last few decades, the absolute number of poor people in the world has actually increased.

TL;DR: 4 policies for health financing are proposed to raise revenues for important health programs increase the efficiency of public health services and make the system better serve the poor.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of economic and demographic change in Latin America, focusing on fertility, poverty, saving, wealth, and population in the context of economic growth, distribution, and conversion.