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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826314803321

Autore

Haacker Markus

Titolo

HIV/AIDS : : The Impact on Poverty and Inequality / / Markus Haacker, Gonzalo Salinas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-8209-6

1-4527-7537-0

1-283-51480-X

1-4519-9734-5

9786613827258

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (24 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

SalinasGonzalo

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - Economic aspects

AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects

Macroeconomics

Diseases: AIDS and HIV

Demography

Poverty and Homelessness

Health Behavior

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General

Demographic Economics: General

Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

HIV/AIDS

Poverty & precarity

Population & demography

HIV and AIDS

Personal income

Poverty

Population and demographics

Income distribution

HIV

Viruses

Income

Population

Zambia



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"May 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. DATA DESCRIPTION""; ""III. METHODOLOGY""; ""IV. IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS ON POVERTY AND INEQUALITY""; ""V. DETERMINANTS OF THE IMPACT ON INCOME AND POVERTY""; ""VI. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

Using available data on the distribution of HIV/AIDS prevalence across population groups for four sub-Saharan African countries and transposing this information to household income and expenditure surveys, we simulate the impact of HIV/AIDS on poverty and inequality. We find that the epidemic lowers average income and increases poverty, and that the jump in poverty is larger than expected from the fall in average income. This disproportionate increase in poverty reflects the large share of the population living on the threshold of poverty and the higher HIV prevalence rates in those segments of the population.