ECONOMISTS WORLDWIDE AGREE:

INVESTING IN HEALTH
MAKES ECONOMIC SENSE.
We, 267 economists from 44 countries representing diverse experience
and perspectives on economic policy declare that our global society has
a vested interest in investing in health to transform lives and livelihoods.

Our generation has a historic opportunity to achieve a grand convergence

in global health, reducing preventable maternal, child and infectious disease
deaths to universally low levels by 2035.
With the United Nations set to launch the bold sustainable development
agenda, we call on the worlds leaders to prioritize a pro-poor pathway to
universal health coverage.
Universal health coverage ensures that everyone can obtain high-quality,
essential health services without suffering financial hardship.
It is an essential pillar of sustainable development.

Lead Signatory CHINA George Tweneboah JAPAN PERU UGANDA Janet Currie
Jikun Huang Timothy O. Williams Masahiro Kawai Sandro Parodi Willy Rwamparagi David Cutler
Lawrence H. Summers, Patricia Danzon
Justin Yifu Lin Alistair Munro Kagarura
Harvard University
Gordon G. Liu INDIA Takashi Oshio SINGAPORE Brad DeLong
Vinod B. Annigeri Jean-Pascal N. Nganou
Kenichi Ueda Antonio Fatas Pascaline Dupas
AUSTRALIA CTE DIVOIRE Sugata Bag Akihito Watabe UNITED KINGDOM James Fearon
Ibrahim Magazi Aditya Bhattacharjea SOUTH AFRICA Carolyn Fischer
Nejat Anbarci Tony Atkinson
Pratap Singh Birthal KENYA Haroon Bhorat
Hristos Doucouliagos Nicholas Barr Victor R. Fuchs
CYPRUS Satya R. Chakravarty Japheth Awiti Stan du Plessis
Amanda Glassman
Mark McGillivray Andrew Briggs
Christopher Pissarides Sarbajit Chaudhuri Joy Mueni Kiiru J. Paul Dunne
Barbara McPake Karl Claxton Alexander Gleason
Mausumi Das Diana Kimani Patrizio Piraino
DENMARK Paul Collier Rachel Glennerster
BANGLADESH Indraneel Dasgupta George Kosimbei Nicola Viegi
Bjrn Lomborg Joan Costa-Font Nora Gordon
Mohammad A. Jabbar S. Mahendra Dev Dianah Mukwate Nick Vink
Anthony J. Culyer Karen A. Grpin
Chetan Ghate Joseph Muchai Muniu Martin Wittenberg
EGYPT Tim Ensor Michael Grossman
BELGIUM Ahmed Kouchouk Ashima Goyal Mwenda Mwilaria Ingrid Woolard
Eric French Jonathan Gruber
Andre Sapir K. S. James Jennifer Njaramba Robert Haveman
SOUTH KOREA Stephany Griffith-Jones
Reinhilde Veugelers ETHIOPIA Somdeb Lahiri Martine Odhiambo Oleche Andrew Hughes Hallett Peter Heller
Cheolsu Kim
Degnet Abebaw Ramanan Laxminarayan Perez Onono Kara Hanson Rebecca Henderson
BELIZE Tadele Feree Agaje Srijit Mishra Apurva Sanghi
Ignez Tristao SPAIN Mireia Jofre-Bonet Christopher Hollenbeak
Joseph Atta-Mensah Diganta Mukherjee Irma Clots-Figueras Andrew M. Jones William Hsiao
Alemayehu Geda Anjan Mukherji MEXICO
BOLIVIA Pablo Ibarraran
Guillem Lopez- Richard Layard Wenke Hwang
Luis Tejerina Netsanet Walelign Workie Arnab Mukherji Casasnovas Paul Levine John Irons
Soumyanetra Munshi Matthew Kovach
Andreu Mas-Colell Anil Markandya Paul Isenman
BOTSWANA FRANCE Amarendu Nandy David Mayer-Foulkes
Alistair McGuire Dean Jamison
Jerome Creel Pulin B. Nayak Isidro Soloaga
Linah K. Mohohlo SWEDEN Giovanni Melina Seema Jayachandran
Alan Kirman Rupayan Pal Carlos M. Urza
Thomas Sterner Anne Mills Arjun Jayadev
BRAZIL Thomas Piketty M. Govinda Rao Geoffrey Joyce
MOROCCO Joseph Pearlman
Marcia Cristina Gomes Ayanendu Sanyal SWITZERLAND Ted Joyce
da Rocha GERMANY Driss M. Zine-Eddine Lucrezia Reichlin
Subrata Sarkar David B. Evans Paul Revill Dean Karlan
John Komlos El-Idrissi
Marcella Distrutti Anindya Sen Bibhas Saha Eric Kramer
Dalia Marin THAILAND
Naercio Menezes Filho Soumyen Sikdar MYANMAR Mark Sculpher Carlos Martins-Filho
Charan Singh Ammar Siamwalla
Bruno Cara Giovannetti GHANA Alex Ergo Peter C. Smith Keith E. Maskus
Andre Medici Anup Sinha Siripen Supakankunti
Philip Kofi Adom Richard D. Smith Bruce Mizrach
Marcelo J. Moreira Pankaj Sinha NICARAGUA Chalongphob
Frank Adu Nicholas Stern Akbar Noman
Rodrigo Soares Uday Bhanu Sinha Carlos Herrera U Sussangkarn
Moses Aikins Marc Suhrcke Rachel Nugent
Genevieve Cecilia E. Somanathan Nualnoi Treerat Adair Turner Anne Morrison Piehl
CANADA Aryeetey Krishnamurthy NIGERIA
THE NETHERLANDS Anna Vassal Steve Radelet
Matilde Bombardini Subramanian (Subbu) Ayodeji Ajiboye
Francis Mensah Rob Baltussen Sophie Witter Lakshmi K. Raut
Timothy Evans Shehu Rano Aliyu
Asenso-Boadi Aviral Tiwari Olivia Wu Alvin Roth
Alan Freeman Nkata Chuku J.L. (Hans) Severens
Beena Varghese Robert Yates Will Semmler
Prabhat Jha Chris Atim Musa Ibrahim Jega Eddy van Doorslaer
Richmond Commodore Lara Shore-Sheppard
M. Kent Ranson INDONESIA Kenneth Ojo UNITED STATES
Alan Whiteside Selassi Amah dAlmeida Olumide Okunola THE PHILIPPINES Vernon L. Smith
Teguh Dartanto M. Caridad Araujo Agnes Soucat
Augustin Kwasi Fosu Obinna Onwujekwe Karl Kendrick Chua
Djoni Hartono Kenneth Arrow Joseph E. Stiglitz
CHILE Edward Nketiah- Chibuzo Opara
Camilo Cid
Athia Yumna TURKEY Dean Baker Daria Taglioni
Amponsah Arief Anshory Yusuf Afees Adebare Salisu Kaushik Basu
Manuel Llorca-Jaa Bilin Neyapti Nathan W. Tefft
Justice Nonvignon Francis Nwachukwu Ilhan Can Ozen Peter Berman David J. Vanness
Miguel Quiroga-Suazo Peter Quartey ISRAEL Ukwuije Ilhan Ozturk Stefano M. Bertozzi Nicholas Wilson
Daniel Sakyi Sergiu Hart David Blanchflower
NORWAY Ali C. Tasiran Barbara L. Wolfe
Nii Kwaku Sowa Erol Taymaz Frank J. Chaloupka
ITALY Halvor Mehlum Tetsuji Yamada
Henry Telli Ebru Voyvoda Menzie D. Chinn
Ferdinando Regalia Kjetil Storesletten
Ebo Turkson A. Erinc Yeldan Daniel Cotlear
Howard White

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