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How Subjective Beliefs about HIV Infection Affect Life-Cycle Fertility : Evidence from Rural Malawi
Shapira, Gil - 2013
This paper studies the effect of subjective beliefs about HIV infection on fertility decisions in a context of high HIV prevalence and simulates the impact of different policy interventions, such as HIV testing programs and prevention of mother-to-child transmission, on fertility and child...
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The Epidemiological Impact of an HIV/AIDS Vaccine in Developing Countries
Stover, John; Garnett, Geoff P.; Seitz, Steve - 2013
Many people see an effective preventive AIDS vaccine as the best solution to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Ten years ago many … developed and many candidates are being tested. Strategies to implement HIV/AIDS vaccination need to be developed to be ready … determine issues such as: What will be the impact of the vaccine on the epidemic? Who should be vaccinated? Will an AIDS vaccine …
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Pharmaceutical Patents and Prices : A Preliminary Empirical Assessment Using Data from India
Duggan, Mark; Goyal, Aparajita - 2012
retail sales in the world and is one of the fastest growing segments in India. Using information on product patents granted …
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Indirect Effects of COVID-19 Nonpharmaceutical Interventions on Vaccine Acceptance
Bussolo, Maurizio; Sarma, Nayantara; Torre, Iván - 2022
The information set from which individuals make their decision on vaccination includes signals from trusted agents, such as governments, community leaders, and the media. By implementing restrictions, or by relaxing them, governments can provide a signal about the underlying risk of the pandemic...
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Health Outcomes in Poor Countries and Policy Options : Empirical Findings from Demographic and Health Surveys
Wang, Limin - 2013
Empirical studies on health at a disaggregate level-by socioeconomic group or geographic location-can provide useful information for designing poverty-focused interventions. Using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, the author investigates the determinants of health outcomes in low-income...
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Bailing Out the World's Poorest
Ravallion, Martin - 2012
developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …
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The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty
Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - 2012
The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world, lived …
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Is the Developing World Catching up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion
Bussolo, Maurizio; De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Medvedev, Denis - 2012
rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …
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Who Are the Net Food Importing Countries?
Ng, Francis; Aksoy, M. Ataman - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to update the information on net food importing countries, using different definitions of food, separating countries by their level of income, whether they are in conflict and whether they are significant oil exporters. The study also estimates the changes in net...
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Patterns of Export Diversification in Developing Countries : Intensive and Extensive Margins
Amurgo-Pacheco, Alberto; Pierola, Martha Denisse - 2012
This paper uses highly disaggregated trade data to investigate geographic and product diversification patterns across a group of developing nations for the period from 1990 to 2005. The econometric investigation shows that the gravity equation fits the observed differences in diversification...
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