Malaria and Growth

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 ac...

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Main Authors:	McCarthy, F. Desmond, Wolf, Holger, Wu, Yi
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	CLIMATE CLIMATE VARIABLES CLIMATIC CHANGE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES DIARRHEA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EPIDEMICS FATIGUE GDP HEALTH CARE HIV HOUSING IMMUNE SYSTEM IMPREGNATED BEDNETS INFECTION INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTERVENTION MALARIA MEDICAL TREATMENT MIGRANTS MORBIDITY MORTALITY MORTALITY RATES NUTRITION PARASITES PREGNANT WOMEN PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMS PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY OF LIFE RAINFALL REDUNDANCY SANITATION SPECIALIZATION TEMPERATURE TUBERCULOSIS VACCINATION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/03/437969/malaria-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19847

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spelling	okr-10986-198472021-04-23T14:03:47Z Malaria and Growth McCarthy, F. Desmond Wolf, Holger Wu, Yi CLIMATE CLIMATE VARIABLES CLIMATIC CHANGE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES DIARRHEA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EPIDEMICS FATIGUE GDP HEALTH CARE HIV HOUSING IMMUNE SYSTEM IMPREGNATED BEDNETS INFECTION INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTERVENTION MALARIA MEDICAL TREATMENT MIGRANTS MORBIDITY MORTALITY MORTALITY RATES NUTRITION PARASITES PREGNANT WOMEN PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMS PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY OF LIFE RAINFALL REDUNDANCY SANITATION SPECIALIZATION TEMPERATURE TUBERCULOSIS VACCINATION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION 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. 2014-08-28T19:11:29Z 2014-08-28T19:11:29Z 2000-03 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/03/437969/malaria-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19847 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2303 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	CLIMATE CLIMATE VARIABLES CLIMATIC CHANGE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES DIARRHEA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EPIDEMICS FATIGUE GDP HEALTH CARE HIV HOUSING IMMUNE SYSTEM IMPREGNATED BEDNETS INFECTION INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTERVENTION MALARIA MEDICAL TREATMENT MIGRANTS MORBIDITY MORTALITY MORTALITY RATES NUTRITION PARASITES PREGNANT WOMEN PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMS PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY OF LIFE RAINFALL REDUNDANCY SANITATION SPECIALIZATION TEMPERATURE TUBERCULOSIS VACCINATION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
spellingShingle	CLIMATE CLIMATE VARIABLES CLIMATIC CHANGE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES DIARRHEA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EPIDEMICS FATIGUE GDP HEALTH CARE HIV HOUSING IMMUNE SYSTEM IMPREGNATED BEDNETS INFECTION INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTERVENTION MALARIA MEDICAL TREATMENT MIGRANTS MORBIDITY MORTALITY MORTALITY RATES NUTRITION PARASITES PREGNANT WOMEN PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMS PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY OF LIFE RAINFALL REDUNDANCY SANITATION SPECIALIZATION TEMPERATURE TUBERCULOSIS VACCINATION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION McCarthy, F. Desmond Wolf, Holger Wu, Yi Malaria and Growth
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2303
description	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.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	McCarthy, F. Desmond Wolf, Holger Wu, Yi
author_facet	McCarthy, F. Desmond Wolf, Holger Wu, Yi
author_sort	McCarthy, F. Desmond
title	Malaria and Growth
title_short	Malaria and Growth
title_full	Malaria and Growth
title_fullStr	Malaria and Growth
title_full_unstemmed	Malaria and Growth
title_sort	malaria and growth
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2014
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/03/437969/malaria-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19847
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