Healthcare economics research in developing countries: an overview / Kenneth Lee, Anne Mills, and Geoffrey Hoare - The impact of malaria control on the economic development of Nepal / Anne Mills - Health-sector disparities in Peru / Dieter K Zschock - The development, growth, and distribution of public and private medical resources in the Philippines / Charles C. Griffin and Vicente B. Paqueo - A study of hospital fees in the Dominican Republic / Maureen A. Lewis - Household participation in financing of health care at government health centres in Rwanda / Donald S. Shepard, Guy Carrin, and Prosper Nyandagazi - Economic determinants of demand for modern infant-delivery in low-income countries: the case of the Philippines / J. Brad Schwartz, John S. Akin and Barry M. Popkin Quantity rationing and the demand of adults for medical care in rural Côte d'Ivoire / Avi Dor and Jacques van der Gaag - Setting global priorities for strategies to control diarrhoeal disease: the contribution of cost-effectiveness analysis / Margaret Phillips - The determinants of hospital costs: and analysis of Ethiopia / Ricardo Bitran-Dicowsky and David W. Dunlop - Cost- effectiveness analysis of chemotherapy regimes of schistosomiasis control / Nicholas Prescott - Economic aspects of the production and use of pharmaceuticals: evidence and gaps in research / Susan D. Foster - The productivity of manpower and supplies in public health services in Java / Peter Berman and Suomi Sakai - Encouraging efficiency through programme and functional budgeting: lessons from experience in Ghana and The Gambia / Abdulai Issaka-Tinorgah and Catriona Waddington.