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Inclusive Growth: An Application of the Social Opportunity Function to Selected African Countries
Mr. Olumuyiwa S Adedeji
,
Huancheng Du
, and
Mr. Maxwell Opoku-Afari
The inclusiveness of growth depends on the extent of access to economic and social opportunities. This paper applies the concept of social opportunity function to ascertain the inclusiveness of growth episodes in selected African countries. Premised on the concept of social welfare function, inclusive growth is associated with increased average opportunities available to the population and improvement in their distribution. The paper establishes that the high growth episodes in the last decade in the selected countries came with increased average opportunities in education and health; but distribution of such opportunities varied across countries, depending on the country-specific policies underpining the growth episodes.
Keywords:
WP; opportunity curve; mortality rate; secondary education; Inclusive growth; social opportunity curve; equity; primary school education; completion rate; education enrollment; enrollment rate; Health care; Global
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HIV/AIDS: The Impact on Poverty and Inequality
Mr. Markus Haacker
and
Mr. Gonzalo Salinas
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.
Keywords:
WP; income; Aids; poverty gap; dependency ratio; expenditure survey
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Tuition Subsidies in a Model of Economic Growth
Mr. Philip R. Gerson
This paper examines a two-sector aggregative growth model with human capital and educated unemployment. In the model, a tuition subsidy may lead to a long-run decline in the educated fraction of the population, because it may decrease the long-run per capita stock of physical capital in the economy, tending to reduce the output of the education sector and the incentives for workers to enroll in school. Thus, cuts in education subsidies undertaken by countries in Africa for adjustment reasons may actually lead to long-run increases in the educational attainment of their populations.
Keywords:
WP; physical capital; capital good; output of the education sector; consumption good; educated labor; price of education; input-output ratio; Consumption; Stocks; Africa