.g. labour).By postponing the normalisation of consumer prices, we detail how normalisations of consumer prices affect the … characterisation of optimal commodity taxes, derive the preferred characterisation, and show how it depends on the normalisation. On …

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 …

-retroviral therapy (ART) to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic - in Africa. To identify the effect, we combine exogenous variation in the scope … counterfactual simulation reveal the largest potential gains in countries with intermediate HIV prevalence where disease control has …

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 …

Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom …