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).

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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.

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