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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy: A Primer
Hsiao, William C. - 2000
This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need in situations where they must address issues concerning health sector policy and when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399711
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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy?
Heller, Peter S. - 2007
This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need to address issues concerning health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to any strategy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400229
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A TIP against the COVID-19 pandemic
Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2020
A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252486
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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions Over Integration and Geography in Economic Development
Subramanian, Arvind - 2002
We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining cross-country income levels using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions ""trumps"" everything else. Controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401492
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Banking Efficiency and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kablan, Sandrine - 2010
This study assesses the determinants of banking system efficiency in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and asks what, besides the degree of efficiency, explains the low level of financial development in the region. It uses stochastic frontier analysis to measure efficiency and a generalized method of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402717
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Epidemics, gender, and human capital in developing countries
Fabrizio, Stefania; Gomes, Diego Braz Pereira; … - 2021
Epidemics have disrupted lives for centuries with deleterious human capital and economic repercussions. In this paper, we investigate how epidemics episodes have impacted school dropouts in developing countries, considering 623 epidemics episodes across countries from 1970 to 2019. Our estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796214
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HIV/AIDS : The Impacton Poverty and Inequality
Haacker, Markus - 2006
Using available data on the distribution of HIV/AIDS prevalence across population groups for four sub-Saharan African … countries and transposing this information to household income and expenditure surveys, we simulate the impact of HIV/AIDS on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400407
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The Disconcerting Pyramids of Poverty and Inequality of Sub-Saharan Africa
Lopes, Paulo Silva - 2005
direction. However, more recently, social indicators are being set back by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, which will generate greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401026
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Welfare Implications of HIV/AIDS
Haacker, Markus - 2003
The paper evaluates the impact of HIV/AIDS on welfare in several countries affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Unlike … studies focusing on the impact of HIV/AIDS on GDP per capita, we evaluate the impact of increased mortality using estimates of … the value of statistical life. Our results illustrate the catastrophic impact of HIV/AIDS in the worst-affected countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403663
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401360