longitudinal data from the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project, which contain family rosters, information on HIV testing …

struggling with an HIV/AIDS epidemic. The relationship between shocks to teachers and student learning suggests that households …

female genital mutilation are often associated with sexual behaviors, practices, and knowledge related to AIDS. This might …

paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two … surprising findings about the dynamics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic which have important implications for policy. First, at least two …

The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya …: (1) training teachers in the Kenyan Government's HIV/AIDS-education curriculum; (2) encouraging students to debate the … role of condoms and to write essays on how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS; and (3) reducing the cost of education …

important effect on transport costs and tariffs for Zambia's economy. Zambia is a peculiar example in Southern Africa as it … competition between Zambian and other regional, mainly South African, operators and because of South African investments in Zambia …'s trucking industry. As a result, the costs of operators registered in Zambia and South Africa are similar. The study also …

This paper analyzes the distributional effect of public spending in Zambia using the most recent data from the 2010 … education spending in Zambia is neither pro-poor nor progressive, but while this is true for the system as a whole it is not …

The paper analyzes migration from Zambia in order to understand how migration policy can support development in the … least developed countries. Overall emigration from Zambia is not high by regional standards, but the pattern of migration is … skewed toward the skilled and away from the unskilled. A development-friendly approach to migration for Zambia would strive …

This report assesses the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture in Zambia, using the Ricardian method. A …, soil, and socioeconomic variables as explanatory variables. There is one main cropping season in Zambia, lasting from …