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Malaria and Growth / McCarthy, Desmond F.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- McCarthy, Desmond F.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- 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 Incidence.
- Malaria Morbidity.
- Malaria Mortality.
- Medical Treatment.
- Morbidity And Mortality.
- Nutrition.
- Parasitic Disease.
- Population Policies.
- Poverty and Health.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Public Health.
- Tuberculosis.
- Vaccine.
- Local Subjects:
- 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 Incidence.
- Malaria Morbidity.
- Malaria Mortality.
- Medical Treatment.
- Morbidity And Mortality.
- Nutrition.
- Parasitic Disease.
- Population Policies.
- Poverty and Health.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Public Health.
- Tuberculosis.
- Vaccine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (30 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 1999
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- 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 fmccarthy@worldbank.org and holger.wolf@mailexcite.com.
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