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Poverty and Life Expectancy: The Jamaica Paradox Riley, James C. (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Poverty and Life Expectancy: The Jamaica Paradox
Riley, James C. (Indiana University, Bloomington)
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.
250 pages, 36 b/w illus. 1 map 21 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 18, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521850476 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 250 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 17 mm · 476 g |
| Language | English |