Assessing the impact of AIDS on the growth path of the Malawian economy

Cuddington, John T.; Hancock, John D.

doi:10.1016/0304-3878(94)90013-2

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“…Also included are effects of HIV/AIDS on the real economy (agriculture and manufacturing). Earlier on, Cuddington and Hancock [26] concluded that HIV/AIDS would have substantial impact on the economic performance for Malawi. Other researchers have commented on the negative impact of the epidemic on economic development for Africa in general [40] and Malawi in particular [15].…”

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Socio-demographic Implications of HIV/AIDS in Malawi

Nyirongo¹

2012

TODEMOJ

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Malawi is one of the countries in the sub-Saharan Africa with high prevalence of HIV/AIDS. This paper analyzes socio-demographic effects using estimates and projections by the United Nations Population Division. It compares estimates and projections for both short term (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020) and also long term , with the reality of HIV/AIDS and without the scenario of it. Detailed comparisons are made on population structure and main demographic processes for Malawi (mortality and fertility). The paper compares stock and period indicators, including life expectancy, crude birth rates, crude death rates, age specific fertility rates and child dependency ratios. Considerable effects of HIV/AIDS on mortality and child dependency ratios are observed with the highest point of impact around 1995. With the HIV/AIDS scenario, there is about 6-13 years of reduction in life expectancy at birth for the period from 1995 to 2050. Most likely, persisting HIV/AIDS demographic impacts will continue perpetuating socio-demographic impacts.

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Section: Hiv/aidsmentioning

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Socio-demographic Implications of HIV/AIDS in Malawi

Nyirongo¹

2012

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“…We abstract away from the preference for leisure in the family utility functions as we find that labour supply is not a choice for the families surveyed in our sample. 18 Preferences are of course defined over the family's per capita consumption expenditure, c, and over an index of children's education, CE, taking all the school-age children of the family into account. Further, and, for the context of this study, most importantly, mental health of the family (M) and its physical health (H) are also allowed to influence a family's utility.…”

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Negative Reality of the HIV Positives: Evaluating Welfare Loss in a Low Prevalence Country

2008

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Using primary household data from India we estimate family utility function parameters that measure the relative importance of consumption, schooling of children and health (both physical and mental) and find that mental health is far more important than consumption or children's schooling in determining household utility. We then estimate that the monetary equivalent of the welfare loss to an HIV family is Rs. 66,039 per month, whereas the losses to an HIV male and female are Rs. 67,601 and Rs. 65,120 per month respectively. These figures are huge given that the average per capita consumption expenditure of the families in our sample is just Rs.

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“…Indeed, from the AIDS empirical literature (e.g., Bloom and Mahal 1997a, b;Cuddington and Hancok 1994), we know that consumption and health are interconnected, but we cannot make conclusions about the net effect of health investment. 3 Indeed, it seems analytically difficult to slice on the net effect of a high health deterioration rate and low health productivity on health investment as not all diseases have the same effects.…”

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“…The author showed that in poor countries where life expectancy is low, individuals are more likely to discount the future and thus are less inclined to save. Cuddington and Hancok (1994) also stated that health expenditure induces a decrease in savings at the expense of capital accumulation. However, this is questionable due to the fact that health expenditure is harmful to consumption.…”

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Optimal health investment and preference structure

Azomahou

Diène

Diene³

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Econ Theory

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This paper develops a general equilibrium framework to study the role of preference structure (additive, multiplicative and a convex combination of the two) in connecting consumption, health investment, stock of health and capital, and their effects on the wage rate and on productivity. We show that the elasticities of health production, health investment and health cost determine jointly how health influences the wage rate. We examine the steady state and the equilibrium dynamics of the model. In the case of additive preferences, the existence of equilibrium and the stability of the dynamic system require that the ratio of the elasticities of the cost of health and health investment is greater than the elasticity of the production function of health. Health stock can have either positive or negative effects on wages via a mechanism of reservation wages. When preferences are multiplicative, the condition of the existence of equilibrium and the stability of the dynamic system reverse, and the effect of health stock on wages is always positive. Longevity is a decreasing convex-concave function of the elasticity of inter-temporal substitution of health. We also compare the relative behavior of opportunity costs of health under preference structure.

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Assessing the impact of AIDS on the growth path of the Malawian economy

Cited by 119 publications

References 4 publications

Socio-demographic Implications of HIV/AIDS in Malawi

Socio-demographic Implications of HIV/AIDS in Malawi

Negative Reality of the HIV Positives: Evaluating Welfare Loss in a Low Prevalence Country

Optimal health investment and preference structure

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