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An assessment of the impact of HIV/AIDS on economic growth : the case of Kenya
Were, Maureen; Nafula, Nancy N. - 2003
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509459
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Growth and enduring epidemic diseases
Bell, Clive (contributor); Gersbach, Hans (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003364203
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Agriculture, Aid and Economic Growth in Africa
McArthur, John - 2018
How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically-indexed applied general equilibrium model that considers pathways through which aid might affect growth and structural transformation of labor markets in the context of soil nutrient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918516
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Medication against conflict
Berlanda, Andrea; Cervellati, Matteo; Esposito, Elena; … - 2022
-retroviral therapy (ART) to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic - in Africa. To identify the effect, we combine exogenous variation in the scope …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167946
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Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid?
Annen, Kurt - 2019
This paper shows that the increased policy-selectivity of aid allocations observed in recent years provides recipient countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and Institutional Assessment policy index from 1.5 to 2 for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865492
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The Strategic Use and Potential Demand for an HIV Vaccine in Southern Africa
Desmond, Christopher - 2017
HIV prevalence in Southern Africa is the highest in the world and the impact of HIV/AIDS in the region are devastating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971040
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Using Lotteries to Incentivize Safer Sexual Behavior : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on HIV Prevention
Bjorkman Nyqvist, Martina - 2017
Financial incentives are a promising HIV prevention strategy. This paper assesses the effect on HIV incidence of a lottery program in Lesotho with low expected payments but a chance to win a high prize conditional on negative test results for sexually transmitted infections. The intervention...
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Rewarding Safer Sex : Conditional Cash Transfers for Hiv/Sti Prevention
de Walque, Damien - 2017
Incentive-based policies have been shown to be powerful in many areas of behavior, but have rarely been tested in the sexual domain. The Rewarding Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention and Control in Tanzania (RESPECT) study is a randomized controlled trial testing the hypothesis that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972502
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HIV Testing, Behavior Change, and the Transition to Adulthood in Malawi
Beegle, Kathleen - 2017
For young adults living in countries with AIDS epidemics, getting an HIV test may influence near-term decisions, such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973360
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The Heterogeneous Effects of HIV Testing
Baird, Sarah - 2017
An extensive multi-disciplinary literature examines the effects of learning one's HIV status on subsequent risky sexual behaviors. However, many of these studies rely on non-experimental designs; use self-reported outcome measures, or both. This study investigates the effects of a randomly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973362