Fighting against Malaria: Prevent wars while waiting for the "miraculous" vaccine


Autoria(s): Garcia Montalvo, José; Reynal-Querol, Marta
Contribuinte(s)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa

Data(s)

15/09/2005

Resumo

The World Health Organization estimates that 300 million clinical cases of malaria occur annually and observed that during the 80's and part of the 90's its incidence increased. In this paper we explore the influence of refugees from civil wars on the incidence of malaria in the refugee-receiving countries. Using civil wars as an instrumental variable we show that for each 1,000 refugees there are between 2,000 and 2,700 cases of malaria in the refugee receiving country. On average 13% of the cases of malaria reported by the WHO are caused by forced migration as a consequence of civil wars.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10230/923

Idioma(s)

eng

Direitos

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Palavras-Chave #Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods #civil wars #forced migration #economic impact
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper