This Selected Issues paper reviews the status and potential impacts of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. It draws on …

economic growth constitutes the most important element in poverty reduction and, consequently, a high premium is being placed … poverty and that growth and equity are not necessarily in conflict. …

Argentina reduced its HIV/AIDS burden by 21 percent from 2000 to 2010, saving an estimated 4,379 lives. This makes … Argentina?s HIV/AIDS burden the second lowest in South America after Chile. Argentina reduced the mother-to-child HIV/AIDS … transmission rate by 62 percent from 2000 to 2011. The National HIV/AIDS Program was created in 1995 and has since introduced key …

This paper focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS … overriding philosophy of the MGDS is poverty reduction through sustainable economic growth and infrastructure development. …

direction. However, more recently, social indicators are being set back by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, which will generate greater …Poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) should not be ascertained only on the basis of scarce and unreliable … poverty and inequality have increased over the past 30 years are based on regional income estimates with falling medians and …

This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for the Kingdom of Lesotho presents a determined plan in pursuance of high and …

The paper evaluates the impact of HIV/AIDS on welfare in several countries affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Unlike … studies focusing on the impact of HIV/AIDS on GDP per capita, we evaluate the impact of increased mortality using estimates of … the value of statistical life. Our results illustrate the catastrophic impact of HIV/AIDS in the worst-affected countries …

The Government of the Republic of Niger has implemented the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS), which describes the … country's macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty reduction. This strategy is based on … the conviction that poverty can be reduced through strong and sustained economic growth that creates wealth and jobs. The …

The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) on the Republic of Mozambique review the country’s macroeconomic …, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty reduction, and external financing needs and major sources of …