We develop a demo-economic micro-simulation model able to simulate over a fifteen years period the impact of AIDS on … household and individual incomes. When focusing on the labor supply effects of over- mortality, the main effect of AIDS in Cˆote … conclusions do not seem to depend on the degree of heterogeneity and clustering of the HIV/AIDS-infections over the population. …

Lack of knowledge about differential AIDS mortality seriously hampers the study of the economic impact of AIDS in … educated people have a higher risk of dying of AIDS, because they are more likely to have several sexual partners. This effect … the socio-economic characteristics of low and high risk groups seems indispensable to set up adequate AIDS prevention and …

Privatization became a central element of economic reforms in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1990s … impact of privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1991 to 2002 in the light of recent developments, and to derive some …

good governance (using latent variable approach) and a financial decentralisation index. Panel data is employed to explore … if better quality of institutional arrangements (of governance and more financial decentralisation) lead to better …

, viz, education, infrastructure, technological progress, income, etc.) and also index of good governance (by aggregating … statistical measures. Panel regression showed that governance measures, and economic policy variables are crucial to explain …

This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time … of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources constructed by 18 different organizations. We assign these individual … measures of governance to categories capturing key dimensions of governance, and use an unobserved components model to …