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Global Lessons from the AIDS Pandemic : Economic, Financial, Legal and Political Implications
Condon, Bradly J. (contributor); Sinha, Tapen (contributor) - 2008
This book examines the global HIV/AIDS pandemic from a multidisciplinary perspective, analyzing its economic impact … mechanisms for financing global and national responses. The authors paint a global picture of the HIV/AIDS pandemic one issue … a comprehensive HIV/AIDS strategy. The book analyzes the successes and failures of national governments, international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520989
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AIDS and Aid : A Public Good Approach
Sonntag, Diana - 2010
The Challenge: A Transnational Response to HIV/AIDS -- Profiling the Provision Status of Health-Promoting Public Goods … Against AIDS -- International Transfers -- Regional Constraints and HIV/AIDS -- Summary and Concluding Remarks …The unfolding tragedy of the AIDS epidemic is an instance where a disease with local origins has created consequences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521335
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HIV/AIDS and social capital in a cross-section of countries
David, Antonio C. - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003501959
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Trends and socioeconomic gradients in adult mortality around the developing world
De Walque, Damien; Filmer, Deon - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009508956
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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics
Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020
What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228661
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Does rainfall matter for economic growth? : evidence from global sub-national data (1990-2014)
Damania, Richard; Desbureaux, Sébastien; Zaveri, Esha - 2019
Much micro-econometric evidence suggests that precipitation has wide ranging impacts on vital economic indicators such as agricultural yields, human capital, and even conflict. And yet paradoxically most macro-econometric evidence (especially in the climate economy literature) finds that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051944
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Measuring human capital
Angrist, Noam; Djankov, Simeon; Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; … - 2019
Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007954
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Data transparency and long-run growth
Islam, Asif Mohammed; Lederman, Daniel - 2020
For centuries states have engaged in collecting data to serve various interests. In modern times, a data gap has emerged between developing and developed economies, with the latter having more advanced data systems. The authors explore the effects of data transparency on long-run growth for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434608
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Productivity of public spending, sectoral allocation choices, and economic growth
Baffes, John; Shah, Anwar - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000892515
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Looking at the facts: what we know about policy and growth from cross-country analysis
Levine, Ross; Zervos, Sara - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000874934