Malaria and Growth

• Tác giả: F. Desmond McCarthy
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 616.93 Clostridium infections, diphtheria, cholera, dysenteries, protozoan infections
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2014
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 297307
• Chủ đề: 1. CLIMATE; 2. CLIMATE VARIABLES; 3. CLIMATIC CHANGE; 4. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; 5. DIARRHEA

Tóm tắt

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.