Labor Market and Wage Impacts of HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi
There is a limited but growing literature on direct impacts of HIV/AIDS morbidity and mortality on the livelihoods of poor rural people. Less is known, however, about indirect impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the livelihoods of rural communities, allowing for market interactions between household...
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| description | There is a limited but growing literature on direct impacts of HIV/AIDS morbidity and mortality on the livelihoods of poor rural people. Less is known, however, about indirect impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the livelihoods of rural communities, allowing for market interactions between households. These are difficult to study, but unskilled wages and food prices are critically important to the welfare of poor people, whether directly affected by HIV/AIDS or not: If the HIV/AIDS epidemic depresses labor demands more than it contracts labor supply, this could lower wage rates in affected communities, damaging the livelihoods of poor households. Promotion of laborsaving enterprises and technologies under such circumstances could have disastrous consequences for the healthy poor. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1605372025-11-06T04:12:23Z Labor Market and Wage Impacts of HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi Dorward, Andrew R. Mwale, Idrissa social protection HIV human immunodeficiency virus aids economic aspects nutrition nutrition policies food security households hunger impact agricultural sector income labour market social aspects There is a limited but growing literature on direct impacts of HIV/AIDS morbidity and mortality on the livelihoods of poor rural people. Less is known, however, about indirect impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the livelihoods of rural communities, allowing for market interactions between households. These are difficult to study, but unskilled wages and food prices are critically important to the welfare of poor people, whether directly affected by HIV/AIDS or not: If the HIV/AIDS epidemic depresses labor demands more than it contracts labor supply, this could lower wage rates in affected communities, damaging the livelihoods of poor households. Promotion of laborsaving enterprises and technologies under such circumstances could have disastrous consequences for the healthy poor. 2006 2024-11-21T09:51:04Z 2024-11-21T09:51:04Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160537 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Dorward, Andrew R.; and Mwale, Idrissa. 2006. Labor Market and Wage Impacts of HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi. In AIDS, poverty, and hunger. Gilespie, Stuart (Ed.). Chapter 4. Pp. 75-96. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/0896297586ch4. |
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| title | Labor Market and Wage Impacts of HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi |
| title_full | Labor Market and Wage Impacts of HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi |
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| title_sort | labor market and wage impacts of hiv aids in rural malawi |
| topic | social protection HIV human immunodeficiency virus aids economic aspects nutrition nutrition policies food security households hunger impact agricultural sector income labour market social aspects |
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