The rapid increase in adult mortality due to the AIDS epidemic in sub- Saharan Africa raises great concern about its … rural Kenya using a panel of 1,266 households surveyed in 1997, 2000, and 2002. We find a strong correlation between working … adult death. The evidence indicates that rising adult mortality in rural Kenya is adversely affecting primary school …

disease, on human capital investment decisions and income growth. This research is particularly relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa …

this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how … in Kenya.We test for the importance of ability bias and find convexity robust to endogeneity. Treating education as an …

The goal is to try to give inputs on a global problem: eradicating poverty on a global scale. That is, to find evidence … and discuss complex problems regarding cronic poverty, a major source of instability in our world today, and to put …-Saharan) Africa and its (past and present) problems. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region which has the greatest percentage of its …

poverty headcount by 2015 suggest that Zambia is unlikely to meet this International Development Target unless policy reforms … reforms to the public sector. This paper uses household survey data from 1991, 1996 and 1998 to chart the evolution of poverty … the policies implemented and the observed changes in poverty and inequality. Our study finds a dramatic increase in …

Review of 'The End of Poverty' by Jeffrey Sachs …