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Local Demand for a Global Intervention: Policy Priorities in the Time of AIDS

Dionne, Kim Yi - In: World Development 40 (2012) 12, pp. 2468-2477

local demand for HIV/AIDS interventions in Africa and seeks to explain patterns of demand using data from a country hard …-hit by AIDS. As international agencies and national governments scale up HIV/AIDS interventions in Africa, I find HIV …

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Poverty and Prime-Age Mortality in Eastern and Southern Africa: Evidence from Zambia and Kenya

Chapoto, Antony; Kirimi, Lilian; Kadiyala, Suneetha - In: World Development 40 (2012) 9, pp. 1839-1853

Using nationwide longitudinal household survey data from rural Kenya (1997–2004) and Zambia (2001–2004), we estimate probit models to identify the socio-economic correlates of disease-related mortality of individuals between the ages of 15 and 59. We compare these results with the rural...

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Does Prime-Age Mortality Reduce Per-Capita Household Income? Evidence from Rural Zambia

Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Thiele, Rainer - In: World Development 45 (2013) C, pp. 51-62

This paper evaluates the impact of prime-age mortality on per-adult equivalent incomes of surviving household members in rural Zambia. The analysis uses difference-in-difference matching techniques and controls for spillover effects by excluding households from the control group if members...

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Involving Communities in the Targeting of Cash Transfer Programs for Vulnerable Children: Opportunities and Challenges

Robertson, Laura; Mushati, Phyllis; Skovdal, Morten; … - In: World Development 54 (2014) C, pp. 325-337

We used baseline data, collected in July–September 2009, from a randomized controlled trial of a cash transfer program for vulnerable children in eastern Zimbabwe to investigate the effectiveness, coverage, and efficiency of census- and community-based targeting methods for reaching vulnerable...

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The Fungibility of Aid Earmarked for HIV/AIDS Control Programs

Harper, Sarah E. - In: World Development 40 (2012) 11, pp. 2263-2274

This paper investigates fungibility of Official Development Assistance (ODA) for HIV/AIDS control, adding to the debate regarding consequences of scaling up this type of ODA. A theoretical model yields two estimable equations; in public health spending and non-health spending, with ODA for...

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Development Aid and Growth in Transition Countries

Askarov, Zohid; Doucouliagos, Hristos - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 383-399

effectiveness of development aid in promoting growth. We focus on whether aid promotes economic growth in transitional economies. We … find that aid, on average, has had a positive impact on growth for this specific group of countries. This result is robust … on good policy and there is little evidence of non-linear growth effects arising from aid. …

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Growth, Growth Accelerations, and the Poor: Lessons from Indonesia

Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Resosudarmo, Budy P. - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 154-165

We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset … Indonesia. Growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality. In contrast, overall growth and growth in mining … appears to have no effect on the same. Growth acceleration in non-mining reduces poverty and inequality whereas the same in …

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Finance and Growth for Microenterprises: Evidence from Rural China

Beck, Thorsten; Lu, Liping; Yang, Rudai - In: World Development 67 (2015) C, pp. 38-56

informal finance, especially financing from friends and family, is positively associated with sales growth of microenterprises … firm growth. Our findings underline the importance of finance for entrepreneurship and microenterprise growth, and the role …

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Comment on Lof, Mekasha, and Tarp (2014)

Herzer, Dierk; Nowak-Lehmann, Felicitas; Dreher, Axel; … - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 389-396

In Nowak-Lehmann et al. (2012), we used time-series methods to investigate the impact of aid on per capita GDP. Lof, Mekasha, and Tarp (LMT, 2014) criticize our econometric approach, our interpretation, and our data-handling procedure which lead to a large share of missing observations in some...

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Rejoinder to Herzer, Nowak-Lehmann, Dreher, Klasen, and Martinez-Zarzoso (2014)

Lof, Matthijs; Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh; Tarp, Finn - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 397-399

The Herzer et al. (2014) comment on our article (Lof et al., 2014) addresses two issues. First, they propose various ways to circumvent our concerns regarding data handling in a paper by Nowak-Lehmann et al. (2012). We point out that under these new approaches the link between the empirical...

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