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HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa has been closely associated with adverse economic effects, and could thwart the success of … poverty reduction initiatives. HIV/AIDS is fast eroding the health benefits, which Kenya gained in the first two decades of … independence. The paper explores the different channels through which HIV/AIDS affects economic growth in a low-income country like …
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-retroviral therapy (ART) to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic - in Africa. To identify the effect, we combine exogenous variation in the scope …
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This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
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data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … candidates. Beginning with the 1994 elections, there is a strong, positive association between HIV/AIDS mortality and the vote …
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Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...
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British and German markets. The study estimated Almost Ideal demand system (AIDS), according to seemingly unrelated regression … other variables hold constant and insignificantly statistics. The results of the AIDS model in the British market showed … the France market. The results of the AIDS model in the German market showed France, Holland, and Denmark are the most …
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-CSOs) have benefited from increased funding related to the HIV/AIDS response in Africa. First, we review the literature on …
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There are competing views of how HIV/AIDS affects saving, and to a lesser extent, investment. One argument is that …
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The spread of HIV and AIDS and risky sexual behavior continues to be a problem in Sub-Saharan African countries despite … very low, the opportunity cost associated with dying from AIDS and foregoing future consumption is very low. We examine how … survival. In the model, agents can receive life insurance benefits if their death is not the result of AIDS. We demonstrate …
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