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Does HIV/AIDS matter for economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa?
Mveyange, Anthony; Skovsgaard, Christian; Lesner, Tine - 2015
Estimating the impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic on economic growth is challenging because of endogeneity concerns. In this … paper, we use novel data on male circumcision and distance from the first HIV outbreak as instrumental variables for the HIV/AIDS … epidemic in 241 regions across 25 countries in sub-Saharan Africa during 2003-12. Our main finding shows that the impact of HIV/AIDS …
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Disease surveillance, mortality and race : the case of HIV/AIDS in the United States
Kristensen, Frederikke Frehr; Sharp, Paul - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012521440
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Modern infectious diseases: macroeconomic impacts and policy responses
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, and COVID-19. Although major epidemics and pandemics can take an enormous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271478
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A model of gender inequality and economic growth
Kim, Jinyoung; Lee, Jong-Wha; Shin, Kwanho - 2016
This paper introduces a model of gender inequality and economic growth that focuses on the determination of women's time allocation among market production, home production, child rearing, and child education. The theoretical model is based on Agénor (2012), but differs in several important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431771
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Natural resources and economic growth : a meta-analysis
Havránek, Tomáš; Horváth, Roman; Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2016
An important question in development studies is how abundance of natural resources affects long-term economic growth. No consensus answer, however, has yet emerged, with approximately 40% of empirical papers finding a negative effect, 40% finding no effect, and 20% finding a positive effect....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432122
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Public debt and economic growth : economic systems matter
Ahlborn, Markus; Schweickert, Rainer - 2016
Most studies on the relationship between public debt and economic growth implicitly assume homogeneous debt effects across their samples. We - in accordance with recent literature - challenge this view and state that there likely is a great deal of cross-country heterogeneity in that...
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Ethiopia : an agrarian economy in transition
Seid, Yared; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum; Ali, Seid Nuru - 2015
Ethiopia has experienced rapid economic growth since 2005. Real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an average rate of 10.5 per cent per annum for the period between 2004-05 and 2013-14. Public investment in key infrastructure and interventions in the agriculture sector have made important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438433
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Protestant ethic, status seeking, and economic growth
Rauscher, Michael - 1997
Commodities do not only serve the purpose of satisfying direct needs in the production and con-sumption process. Some of them can also be used to display social status and to affect the position of an individual in society. This paper addresses the question under which circum-stances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540102
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The growth-employment-poverty Nexus in Latin America in the 2000s : cross-country analysis
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - 2016
In the great majority of Latin American countries in the 2000s, economic growth took place and brought about improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth was not all that mattered; external factors were...
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543634