Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (30 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
Parallel Title:
McCarthy, Desmond F Malaria and Growth
Keywords:
Anopheles Mosquitoes
;
Climate Change
;
Communicable Diseases
;
Disability
;
Disease Control and Prevention
;
Diseases
;
Early Child and Children's Health
;
Effects
;
Environment
;
Females
;
Health
;
Health Indicators
;
Health Monitoring and Evaluation
;
Health Service Management and Delivery
;
Health, Nutrition and Population
;
Illnesses
;
Impact Of Malaria
;
Life
;
Malaria
;
Malaria
;
Malaria Incidence
;
Malaria Morbidity
;
Malaria Mortality
;
Medical Treatment
;
Morbidity And Mortality
;
Nutrition
;
Parasitic Disease
;
Population Policies
;
Poverty Reduction
;
Poverty and Health
;
Public Health
;
Tuberculosis
;
Vaccine
;
Anopheles Mosquitoes
;
Climate Change
;
Communicable Diseases
;
Disability
;
Disease Control and Prevention
;
Diseases
;
Early Child and Children's Health
;
Effects
;
Environment
;
Females
;
Health
;
Health Indicators
;
Health Monitoring and Evaluation
;
Health Service Management and Delivery
;
Health, Nutrition and Population
;
Illnesses
;
Impact Of Malaria
;
Life
;
Malaria
;
Malaria
;
Malaria Incidence
;
Malaria Morbidity
;
Malaria Mortality
;
Medical Treatment
;
Morbidity And Mortality
;
Nutrition
;
Parasitic Disease
;
Population Policies
;
Poverty Reduction
;
Poverty and Health
;
Public Health
;
Tuberculosis
;
Vaccine
Abstract:
March 2000 - Malaria ranks among the foremost health problems in tropical countries. Allowing for reverse causation, malaria is estimated to reduce GDP per capita growth rates by at least a quarter percentage point a year in many Sub-Saharan countries. McCarthy, Wolf, and Wu explore the two-sided link between malaria morbidity and 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 equality allow for improved anti-malaria efforts, or does malaria itself increase income inequality? Allowing for two-sided causation, McCarthy, Wolf, and Wu 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. This paper - a product of Public Economics, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to study the health-environment-economy nexus. This study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project Health, Environment, and the Economy (RPO 683-73). The authors may be contacted at fmccarthyworldbank.org and holger.wolf@mailexcite.com
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