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Ewald Quaye Garr, MA in Development Management Graduate 2010, now strategic planning and operations manager at B-BOVID Limited, published an article in D+C Development and Cooperation in March 2012: We all win.

On 8 March 2012, 22 new Masters graduated from the Programme of Development Management at the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy at Bochum.

Congratulations to all of you!

Having worked for the IEE for 28 years after 9 years with the personnel department of our university Dagmar Gausepohl retired in February 2012. At the IEE she was a member of the administrative team and the first person to get in contact with for many of our students, staff members, partners and guests.

On 14 February she celebrated her farewell together with the team of the

IEE and guests. Happy retirement, Dagmar!

192 - Katja Bender: Health Financing Mechanisms, Access to Health and Economic Growth

The paper analyzes the comparative effects of alternative health financing mechanisms on economic growth within a two-sector model with human capital. The transitional growth effects of a social insurance system are stronger than those of an out-of-pocket payment system. A private health insurance system ranks 'in between'. If physical capital relative to health is abundant, investments in health have stronger growth effects, which points to the relevance of health investments in particular for developing countries. The relative advantage of a health financing system in the long run depends on the relative amount of investment in health within each system.

The working paper can be downloaded here.