This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of … Blake, 1965) underlying these regional levels and patterns of marital fertility are determined and their relation to the … birth rate in Egypt, the long term fertility and mortality levels are discussed. The prospects of a fertility transition in …

economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment.In the second chapter of this … counteracting disease).In the third chapter of this dissertation, I model the impact of child disease burden on fertility and human … capital investment. The fertility response to a decline in child mortality depends on the morbidity effect of the disease, the …

Long-term care services continue to play an integral role in the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) despite … AIDS cumulative rate in the state positively influenced its likelihood of adoption. Other variables which positively …

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A number of firms fail in their endeavours to run successful HIV/AIDS workplaceprogrammes and as a … study is to explore senior managers’knowledge of, feelings about, and perceptions towards their firm’s HIV/AIDS Policy … managerspurposively selected.The results indicate that only 8.3 per cent of the senior managers have a good grasp of thefirm’s HIV/AIDS …

impact of HIV and AIDS. Companies in South Africa affectedby HIV and AIDS have to compete in global markets where their … tothe BPO&O CC sector to respond to the epidemic because of the direct impact of HIV and AIDS onthe sector resulting from … affects people during their most productive years. In this context, it seemsimportant to understand how HIV/AIDS could …

decisions and income growth of lowered life expectancy as a result of diseases such as HIV/AIDS. We show that an increased … investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa and the role of health in the level of educational … investments and growth for a broader set of countries. The empirical results show that HIV/AIDS has resulted in a substantial …

The thesis consists of three main chapters on optimal incentives for a multi-level allocation process of HIV/AIDS … prevention funds. HIV/AIDS prevention funds often traverse several levels of distribution. At each level, equity-based heuristics …

outbreak of AIDS these women, some of whom move far away from home sometimes for days or even weeks, stand the risk of being … that are likely to predispose them to contracting the AIDS virus. Itinerant women traders appear highly vulnerable, as … spread of AIDs through education has to target itinerant women traders at the points of transaction. …

. The model built on the nonlinear Almost Ideal Demand Systems (AIDS) and structural first-order conditions is developed. By …