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Modeling the Macroeconomic Impact of HIV/AIDS

Haacker, Markus - 2002

The paper addresses the impact of HIV/AIDS on per capita output and income, with particular emphasis on the role of … finds that HIV/AIDS affects both the supply of labor and the demand for labor in the formal sector. Only if there is a … HIV/AIDS on output is complemented by an assessment of the impact on income …

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The Macroeconomic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Botswana

Sgherri, Silvia - 2001

This paper provides an overview of the potential macroeconomic effects of HIV/AIDS in Botswana, focusing on the key … impact of HIV/AIDS, a dual-economy equilibrium model is constructed and simulated under different scenarios. Depending on … exactly how AIDS affects the outlook, GDP growth is projected to fall from around 51⁄2 percent a year without the pandemic to …

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Is regional trade integration a growth and convergence engine in Africa?

Gammadigbe, Vigninou - 2021

The main objective of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) is to stimulate economic growth in participating countries through increased trade, economies of scale, knowledge and technology transfer. Using a panel data over the period 1979 to 2018, this paper examines the contribution of regional...

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Proximity and horizontal policies : the backbone of export diversification and complexity

Salinas, Gonzalo - 2021

The lack of a clear link between general economic fundamentals and export diversification indicators in the literature has fueled the believe that industrial policies are an absolute requisite to diversify exports. This paper, however, does find a strong statistical connection between horizontal...

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Assessing the macroeconomic impact of structural reforms in Ukraine

Ari, Anil; Pula, Gábor - 2021

Ukraine's economic performance has been anemic since the early 1990s. A major impediment to productivity growth has been low investment, held back by lack of strong and independent institutions. This paper aims to assess the major areas of institutional weakness in Ukraine and quantify the...

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The macroeconomic impacts of digitalization in Sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from submarine cables

Simione, Félix F.; Li, Yiruo - 2021

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How do climate shocks affect the impact of FDI, ODA and remittances on economic growth?

Drabo, Alassane - 2021

The three main financial inflows to developing countries have largely increased during the last two decades, despite the large debate in the literature regarding their effects on economic growth which is not yet clear-cut. An emerging literature investigates the dependence of their effects on...

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Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK

Garcia-Macia, Daniel; Korosteleva, Julia - 2021

What drove the UK productivity slowdown post-GFC, and how is the post-Covid recovery expected to differ? This paper traces the sources of TFP growth in the UK over the last two decades through the lens of a structural model of innovation, using registry data on the universe of firms. The...

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Dissecting economic growth in Uruguay

Che, Natasha - 2021

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Energy, efficiency gains and economic development : when will global energy demand saturate?

Bogmans, Christian; Kiyasseh, Lama; Matsumoto, Akito; … - 2020

Not anytime soon. Using a novel dataset covering 127 countries and spanning two centuries, we find evidence for an energy Kuznets curve, with an initial decline of energy demand at low levels of per capita income followed by stages of acceleration and then saturation at high-income levels....

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