-microeconomic assessment. The results indicate that HIV/AIDS greatly reduces annual economic growth, mainly by lowering the long-term rate of … technical change. However, the impacts on income poverty are small, and inequality is reduced by HIV/AIDS. This is because high … unemployment among low-income households minimizes the economic costs of increased mortality. In contrast, slower economic growth …

this paper support a comprehensive petroleum subsidy reform in Yemen. Economic growth is projected to accelerate between 0 …, especially for the poor. Outcomes of alternative reform scenarios range from an increase in poverty of 2 to 6 percentage points …, industrial, and service value chains, which should encourage private sector led and job creating growth in the medium term. …

, the relationship between windfall profits, growth, and households' welfare is less straightforward than what the simple … both productivity-enhancing investments and an oil fund is crucial to achieving shared growth and macroeconomic stability …

dataset for terrorist events, and datasets of external and internal conflict. We explore these data with cross-sectional and … panel growth regression analysis and a structural VAR model. We find that, on average, the incidence of terrorism may have … an economically significant negative effect on growth, albeit one that is considerably smaller and less persistent than …

heterogeneity on economic outcomes. The results confirm the generally found growth-reducing effect of ethnic heterogeneity but also …