Infectious Diseases and Economic Development
Contributors: Cutler, David M.; Farmer, Paul E.; Nunn, Nathan; Kremer, Michael
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Description: This dissertation contains three essays analyzing how disease (particularly communicable disease) and development interact. The first chapter explores how TseTse-transmitted Trypanosomiasis influenced African development. The second essay seeks to understand why the HIV epidemic declined in Uganda. The third study investigates the effect of population health on foreign direct investment.
Notes: Keywords: development, disease, history, HIV/AIDS.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2012