The effects of HIV/AIDS on economic growth and human capitals: a panel study evidence from Asian countries.

Publisher: Informa Healthcare Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8915313 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1360-0451 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 09540121 NLM ISO Abbreviation: AIDS Care Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: London : Informa Healthcare
Original Publication: Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K. : Carfax Pub. Co., c1989-

Cost of Illness* ; Economic Development* ; Models, Economic*; Developing Countries/*economics ; HIV Infections/*economics; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/economics ; Adolescent ; Adult ; Asia/epidemiology ; Female ; HIV Infections/epidemiology ; Humans ; Life Expectancy ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Prevalence

Human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) affects economic growths by reducing the human capitals are among the most poorly understood aspect of the AIDS epidemic. This article analyzes the effects of the prevalence of HIV and full-blown AIDS on a country's human capitals and economic growths. Using a fixed effect model for panel data 1990-2010 from the Asia, I explored the dynamic relationships among HIV/AIDS, economic growths, and human capitals within countries over time. The econometric effects concerned that HIV/AIDS plays an important role in the field of economic growths and it is measured as a change in real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and human capitals. The modeling results for the Asian countries indicates HIV/AIDS prevalence that has a hurtful effect on GDP per capita by reducing human capitals within countries over time.

Keywords: AIDS; Breusch-Pagan test; economic growths; fixed effect model; human capitals

Date Created: 20140702 Date Completed: 20150417 Latest Revision: 20141007

20231215

10.1080/09540121.2014.923812

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