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decisions and income growth of lowered life expectancy as a result of diseases such as HIV/AIDS. We show that an increased … probability of premature death leads to less investment in human capital, and consequently slower growth. We also empirically … investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa and the role of health in the level of educational …
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disease, on human capital investment decisions and income growth. This research is particularly relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa … given the dramatic reduction in life expectancy due to HIV/AIDS and the potential lasting effects on growth. Our results … indicate that as life expectancy shortens so does schooling inducing a lower growth rate of income. These relationships are …
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disease, on human capital investment decisions and income growth. This research is particularly relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa … given the dramatic reduction in life expectancy due to HIV/AIDS and the potential lasting effects on growth. Our results … indicate that as life expectancy shortens so does schooling inducing a lower growth rate of income. These relationships are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805940
The view that widows and their dependents face greater livelihood risks in the era of HIV/AIDS is indeed supported by nationally-representative survey results from Zambia. Efforts to safeguard widows’ rights to land through land tenure innovations involving community authorities may be an...
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Since the southern African food crisis of 2001/02, the ‘new-variant famine’ (NVF) hypothesis first proposed by de Waal and Whiteside (2003) has become an important part of the conventional wisdom surrounding the relationship between HIV/AIDS and food crises in the region. The NVF hypothesis...
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Replaced with revised version of paper 08/04/09.
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This paper examines the high value chains (HVC) for green bean exports from Africa to identify the critical points at …
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This paper assesses the implications of large-scale investments in biofuels for growth and income distribution. We find … that biofuels investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels. Overall …, the biofuel investment trajectory analyzed increases Mozambique’s annual economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and …
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