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This study examines the relative effects of the different types of international financial flows on economic performance in Kenya both in the long- and short-runs using the autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) bounds approach and data for the period 1970 to 2017. This is against the...
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We investigate the interactions across current account misalignments, Real Effective Exchange Rate misalignments and financial (or output) gaps within EU countries. We apply panel techniques, including a Bayesian panel VAR, to 27 EU members over the period 1994-2012. We find that, for the euro...
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We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS …-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA specifically meant to fight sexually transmitted diseases on HIV/AIDS …, conclusive evidence on significant treatment effects on AIDS-related deaths only exists for the major bilateral source of ODA …
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This paper models the impact on economic growth of HIV/AIDS when the epidemic is in a mature phase, in contrast with … epidemic in Central America, show that AIDS is not likely to threaten economic growth through either labor or capital …
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sustained for fifteen years in Honduras. However, existing evidence on the impact of AIDS on economic growth in Africa raises …’s. Hence this paper estimates the magnitude of this threat, measured as the marginal impact of projected changes in AIDS … capital accumulation that proves insufficient to satisfy the demands for a viable HIPC Initiative. – AIDS ; Heavily Indebted …
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Exploiting DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...
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The HIV epidemic has dramatically decreased labor supply among prime-age adults in sub-Saharan Africa. Using within-country variation in regional HIV prevalence and a synthetic panel, I find that HIV significantly increases the capital-labor ratio in urban manufacturing firms. The impact of HIV...
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) are. Next, we apply these results to find that under the first process, HIV/AIDS is equally prevalent among men and women … lead to higher HIV/AIDS prevalence among women in the short run, but it does in the long run. …
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the HIV/AIDS epidemic and still maintain macroeconomic stability. Because of the daunting scale of this epidemic, funds … increase in spending on HIV/AIDS programmes even when the funding is available. Central banks are reluctant to sell the foreign …. However, if aid-induced spending on HIV/AIDS programmes minimizes the adverse impact of the epidemic on human capabilities …
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HIV/AIDS has a severe impact on food security, affecting all of its dimensions: availability, stability, access …, utilization. FAO recognizes that HIV/AIDS is a determining factor for, as well as a consequence of, food insecurity. Although the … relationships among gender, food security and rural livelihoods have been acknowledged in the growing literature on HIV/AIDS impacts …
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