HIV/AIDS: The Impact on Poverty and Inequality

May 1, 2006

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Markus Haacker, and Gonzalo Salinas. HIV/AIDS: The Impact on Poverty and Inequality, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

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.

Subject: HIV and AIDS, Income distribution, Personal income, Population and demographics, Poverty

Keywords: Aids, Dependency ratio, Expenditure survey, Income, Poverty gap, WP

Publication Details

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24
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Working Paper No. 2006/126
Stock No:

WPIEA2006126
ISBN:

9781451863864
ISSN:

1018-5941

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