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 ...

HELGA TAWIL SOURI ABSTRACT Continuing the discussion from Development 48.3 Helga Tawil Souri argues that since 1993 American development projects in the Palestinian territories have focused on ‘peace-building’. Tawil Souri underlines that peace-oriented American funding has not strengthened the Palestinian economy but marginalized indigenous civic institutions, resulting in further impoverishme...

Through the theoretical lens of a “violence continuum” we explore how, in many of the most marginalized areas of Mexico, global and regional historical and contemporary structures have shaped and constrained men’s ability to achieve the hegemonic masculinity of neoliberal Mexico. An analysis of statistics and local research studies on male homicide is used to understand how impoverishment and e...

How does income inequality and its structure affect credit? Based on various strands of the literature, we hypothesize that rising should lead to higher household credit at aggregate level, a substantial part this effect be driven by impoverishment middle class relative top-income households. These intuitions are empirically confirmed study based country-level dataset over period 1970–2017. To ...

The present study sought to determine whether semantic satiation is merely a by-product of adaptation or satiation of upstream, nonsemantic perceptual processes or whether the effect can have a locus in semantic memory. This was done by measuring event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in a semantic word-detection task involving multiple presentations of primes and critical related and unrelated ...

This paper investigates the effect of health-related expenditure on household welfare in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, all of which have undertaken major health sector reform. Two methodologies are used: (i) the incidence and intensity of 'catastrophic' health care expenditure, and (ii) the effect of out-of-pocket payments on poverty headcount and poverty gap m...

The study examines how the recent economic crisis and the related unfavourable economic features affect poverty. As economic crisis is usually associated with many economic and social problems, it tries to determine to what extent it influences poverty. The paper attempts to prove that economic recession contributes not only to the impoverishment of a significant section of society, but also in...