The present study applies purpose-built dynamic computable general equilibrium models for Ghana and Kenya with a …

This essay analyzes the long-run economic effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya, with emphasis on fertility, education and child … interventions in the health sector in the early phase of the epidemic can strongly mitigate its adverse effects. …

In this paper, we present a less-explored channel through which health insurance impacts productivity: by offering … health insurance, employers reduce the expected time workers spend out of work in sick days. Using data from the Medical … Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), we show that a worker with health coverage misses on average 52% fewer workdays than uninsured …

The “social gradient to health” - whereby people belonging to groups higher up the social ladder had better health … investigation into whether, in developing countries also, people’s state of health is dependent on their social status. The purpose … of this paper is to evaluate the relative strengths of economic and social status in determining the health status of …

health aid on health outcomes. After taking into account the endogeneity and using the instrumental variable approach, the … results reveal that health aid improves health outcomes in sub-Saharan African countries. More specifically, for each … additional unit of health aid, life expectancy increases by 0.14, prevalence of HIV decreases by 0.05 and infant mortality …

This paper studied the relationship among public health expenditures, income and health outcomes in the Philippines …. Infant mortality rate, under five mortality rate and life expectancy were used as proxy for health outcomes. Specifically …, this paper presented the profile of government health expenditures, income and health outcomes from 1981 to 2010. The study …

This paper aims to reexamine the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Kenya over the … Kenya, that is, they may emphasize on financial development to ignite economic growth. …