Malaria and Growth
The authors explore the two-sided link between malaria morbidity and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita growth. Climate significantly affects cross-country differences in malaria morbidity. Tropical location is not destiny, however: greater access to rural health care and greater income equality are associated with lower malaria morbidity. But the interpretation of this link is ambiguous: does greater income inequality allow for improved anti-malaria efforts, or does malaria itself increase income inequality? Allowing for two-sided causation, the authors find a significant negative causal effect running from malaria morbidity to the growth rate of GDP per capita. In about a quarter of their sample countries, malaria is estimated to reduce GDP per capita growth by at least 0.25 percentage point a year.
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2000-03
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| Subjects: | CLIMATE, CLIMATE VARIABLES, CLIMATIC CHANGE, COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, DIARRHEA, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, EPIDEMICS, FATIGUE, GDP, HEALTH CARE, HIV, HOUSING, IMMUNE SYSTEM, IMPREGNATED BEDNETS, INFECTION, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, INTERVENTION, MALARIA, MEDICAL TREATMENT, MIGRANTS, MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, MORTALITY RATES, NUTRITION, PARASITES, PREGNANT WOMEN, PRODUCTIVITY, PROGRAMS, PUBLIC HEALTH, QUALITY OF LIFE, RAINFALL, REDUNDANCY, SANITATION, SPECIALIZATION, TEMPERATURE, TUBERCULOSIS, VACCINATION, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/03/437969/malaria-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19847 |
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