That is, there would be a positive feedback effect from health reforms and efficiencies - above all at the demand level by addressing ill health - and a negative one from failing to do so. (If anybody can calculate what 12.5% would be in today's money, then we know the difference between the Wanless "worst case" and what Mr Lansley warns about today).
Addressing the high level audience, Irina Bokova emphasized that gender equality is one the most powerful accelerators for achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
"At some fundamental level, they are really both addressing the fundamental issue of how we create human cooperation through the design of appropriate institutions, " committee member Tore Ellingsen said.