The elderly are one of the key groups of survivors who may be adversely affected by the death of prime-age adults from AIDS. We use a longitudinal survey of households from Northwestern Tanzania in 1991-94 to compare the activities and welfare of the elderly in households before and after the...

By the end of 1999, an estimated 24.5 million Africans were living with HIV/AIDS, accounting for more that seventy percent of all global infections. In Tanzania, an estimated 1.3 million people (of a total population of 33 million) were believed to be infected with HIV, and 140,000 had already...

Education and health care are basic services essential in any effort to combat poverty and are often subsidized with public funds to help achieve that purpose. This paper examines the effectiveness of public social spending on education and health care in several African countries and finds that...

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