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Reform Goes Global

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China And India: Reform Goes Global

A long-standing question in development is whether or not, as a nation’s income rises, the population’s health improves along with it. In the case of China and India, the answer has been no. The economic reforms that transformed China since 1978 clearly unleashed a boom—but they also had the perverse effect of destroying the nation’s public health system. Most notably, much of the population was left uninsured and facing high financial risk from inadequate care.

India hasn’t experienced such wrenching changes, but its public health system has actually stagnated even as incomes have grown. Increased wealth has led to frustration . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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