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 ac...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/03/437969/malaria-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19847 |
| Summary: | 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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