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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Is HIV/AIDS Undermining Botswana’s ‘Success Story’? Implications for Development Strategy	
Autores: 	Thurlow,   James.	
Data: 	2008-08-15	
Ano: 	2007	
Palavras-chave: 	Health Economics and Policy.	
Resumo: 	Despite its strong growth record, Botswana faces two prominent development challenges: the onslaught of HIV/AIDS and the slowdown in diamond mining. This study estimates the growth and distributional impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and considers its implications for the country’s development prospects, using a dynamic computable general equilibrium and microsimulation model that accounts for the cost of treatment. The results of this analysis indicate that HIV/AIDS reduces GDP growth by 1.6 percent, increases the absolute poverty headcount by 1.5 percentage points and disproportionately hurts labor-intensive manufacturing. Therefore, while mining has dominated the recent slowdown in Botswana’s growth, the present findings suggest that HIV/AIDS is undermining economic diversification. Although providing treatment is projected to reclaim a quarter of the lost growth and a third of the poverty caused by the pandemic, the fiscal burden of treatment will constrain diversification, thus underscoring Botswana’s need for development assistance. Furthermore, focusing resources toward treatment may worsen inequality, since the primary beneficiaries will be middle-income and urban households. Therefore, while HIV/AIDS is undermining Botswana’s success story, both unemployment and a stagnant rural economy will remain binding constraints against further propoor development.	
Tipo: 	Working or Discussion Paper	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://purl.umn.edu/42417	
Relação: 	International Food Policy Research Center&gt;IFPRI Discussion Papers

IFPRI Discussion Paper

00697	
Formato: 	40