Poverty and Life Expectancy

Poverty and Life Expectancy
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 0521850479
ISBN-13 : 9780521850476
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Book Synopsis Poverty and Life Expectancy by : James C. Riley

Download or read book Poverty and Life Expectancy written by James C. Riley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidisciplinary study that reconstructs Jamaica's rise from low to high life expectancy and explains how that was achieved. Jamaica is one of the small number of countries that has attained a life expectancy nearly matching that in richer countries, despite having a much lower level of per capita income.


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