The HIV/AIDS Impact on the Rural and Urban Economy*
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This chapter assesses the impact of HIV/AIDS on the functioning of the economy, its GDP growth and the growth of the main sectors. In most developing economies, even a moderate AIDS-induced decline in the rate of growth leads – in the absence of a robust public policy response to a considerable impoverishment of families and children and to a gradual fall in the long term growth of the economy via an erosion of the stocks of production factors, adverse inter-sectoral and intergenerational effects and loss of social capital.
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