000			01037nam a2200109Ia 4500
100			_aCornia, Giovanni Andrea
245			_aGlobalization and health results and options
260			_c2001
520			_aNotes that if properly managed, globalization can lead to important health gains. Suggests that health gains in China, Costa Rica, the East Asia 'tiger economies' and Viet Nam can be attributed in part to their growing access to global markets, savings and technology. Opines that for most of the remaining countries, many of them in Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, globalization has not lived up to its promises due to a combination of poor domestic conditions, and an unequal distribution of foreign investments and the imposition of new conditions further limiting the access of their exports to the OECD markets. Notes that in these developing countries, the last twenty years have brought about a slow, unstable and unequal pattern of growth and stagnation in health indicators.
583			_c10/26/01 _kJOY_D
942			_cA
999			_c23874 _d23874