Estimating the impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic on economic growth is challenging because of endogeneity concerns. In this … paper, we use novel data on male circumcision and distance from the first HIV outbreak as instrumental variables for the HIV/AIDS … epidemic in 241 regions across 25 countries in sub-Saharan Africa during 2003-12. Our main finding shows that the impact of HIV/AIDS …

. The reforms were rooted in both socioeconomic changes, with the AIDS pandemic highlighting the inadequacy of extended …

public service delivery in reducing the orphan-stunting penalty-the higher likelihood of orphans to be stunted. The results … important role in providing lasting solutions to stunting more generally and orphan vulnerability in particular. This evidence …

improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …

, the percentage of registered workers, and labour earnings increased; and all poverty and inequality indicators decreased …

-crisis levels. Most poverty and inequality indicators fell over the period. …

2012 at a better level than at the beginning of the decade, with the exceptions of labour earnings and some poverty …