Endemic African countries: GDP per capita, health expenditure (total, out of pocket), population living in endemic areas.Young Eun KimElisa SicuriFabrizio Tediosi
This paper examines the relationship between GDP per capita and HIV prevalence in African countries. Our hypothesis is that as HIV infections increase within a nation, its GDP per capita will decrease due to the disease's harm to human capital. First, we created a simpleregression model us...
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to develop their offerings, frontier markets like Angola, Algeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Ethiopia are catching up with more established fintech markets, showing positive markers of fintech growth and disruption such as deepening internet penetration and rising GDP per capita. ...
The growth in GDP and GDP per capita do not appear well correlated with the dependent variable. The results also suggest that countries with low ratios of foreign reserves to imports, as well as those with low trade surpluses are more likely to be on the list of bond issuers. Taken at ...
In contrast, GDP per capita and trade gains tend to reduce them. Conclusions This study enriches the research on the determinants of government health expenditure inequality in Africa. Policies that can spur growth in trade and ICT access should be encouraged. Countries should also make more ...
Moreover, GDP per capita is different across countries on the African continent, even though Sub-Sahara Africa is classified as a low-income region. From the sample of 32 countries, five are classified as upper middle income with a per capita GDP of above US$5000; sixteen are lower middle...
National Holiday:Republic Day, December 1 Religions:indigenous beliefs 35%, Protestant and Roman Catholic (both with animist influence) 25% each, Islam 15% Literacy rate:56.6% (2011 est.) Economic summary:GDP/PPP$3.336 billion (2013 est.); per capita $700.Real growth rate:-14.5%.Inflation:...
Mozambique, a country with 25.8 million inhabitants, is one of the poorest countries in the world with GDP per capita of 1105 USD (current, PPP) in 2013 - it ranks 175 in 181 countries in terms of GDP per capita. Despite substantial natural resource discoveries and exploration in recent yea...
Such rebasing is done infrequently, often with several decades in between, and when it is done, it can easily lead to jumps in GDP of 50 percent. In our spreadsheets countries that have recently rebased their measurements stand next to ones that have not even though comparing them makes no...