The recent Paris Summit "For a New Global Financial Pact" confirmed that international financing for development is a major concern for governments in the South and their external partners. Somewhat surprisingly, however, the issue of international financing for health remained off the agenda...

The authors analyse the effect of a change in health on the production of farming households in Mali, using a quasi-experimental design and a generalized linear model for longitudinal data. The results demonstrate that the net improvement - due to medical treatment - of family labor productivity...