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Does the AIDS Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?
Bloom, David E. - 1995
This study examines the claim that the AIDS epidemic will slow the pace of economic growth. We do this by examining the … prevalence of AIDS and the rate of growth of GDP per capita. Our analysis uses well- established empirical growth models to … control for a variety of factors possibly correlated with AIDS prevalence that might also influence growth. We also account …
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Integrating Behavioral Choice into Epidemiological Models of the AIDS Epidemic
Kremer, Michael - 1996
Increased HIV risk creates incentives for people with low sexual activity to reduce their activity, but may make high-activity people fatalistic, leading them to reduce their activity only slightly, or actually increase it. If high-activity people reduce their activity by a smaller proportion...
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Can Having Fewer Partners Increase Prevalence of Aids?
Kremer, Michael - 1994
Under asymmetric information about sexual history, sexual activity creates externalities. Abstinence by those with few partners perversely increases the average probability of HIV infection in the pool of available partners. Since this increases prevalence among the high activity people who...
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Preventives Versus Treatments Redux : Tighter Bounds on Distortions in Innovation Incentives with an Application to the Global Demand for HIV Pharmaceuticals
Kremer, Michael - 2018
Kremer and Snyder (2015) show that demand curves for a preventive and treatment may have different shapes though they target the same disease, biasing the pharmaceutical manufacturer toward developing the lucrative rather than the socially desirable product. This paper tightens the theoretical...
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An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2013
Eleven percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used one quarter of the time. A choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed to analyze the Malawian epidemic. In the developed framework, people select...
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Economic development and structural change : the role of services
Debús, Carlos; Delbianco, Fernando - In: Journal of economic development 46 (2021) 3, pp. 65-84
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Financial development and economic growth : some Caribbean empirical evidence
Ghartey, Edward E. - In: Journal of economic development 43 (2018) 1, pp. 49-76
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Financial development and growth in the short and long run
Fisman, Raymond - 2004
"We analyze the relationship between financial development and inter-industry resource allocation in the short- and long-run. We suggest that in the long-run, economies with high rates of financial development will devote relatively more resources to industries with a 'natural' reliance on...
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Physical and human capital accumulation and the evolution of income and inequality
Baldi, Guido - In: Journal of economic development 38 (2013) 3, pp. 57-83
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Fiscal spending and economic growth
Ryu, Deockhyun - In: Journal of economic development 40 (2015) 4, pp. 91-105
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