's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by … policy related to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in African countries …

In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a … celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey … contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach (West saves Africa) to occasional swings to a "marginal" approach (West …

This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its …

, constrained countries such as China moved strongly into precisely the markets in which AGOA countries had specialized. Although …

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 …

the economic impacts of antiretroviral treatment in Africa. The responses in two important outcomes are studied: (1) labor … supply of adult AIDS patients receiving treatment; and (2) labor supply of children and adults living in the patients …

We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries … correlated with increases in AIDS prevalence. Regions of countries that have light AIDS burdens have witnessed small or no …

, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A … recent paper by Young (2005), however, suggests that similar to the "Black Death" episode in Europe, HIV/AIDS will actually …