How Stronger Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Affects International Trade Flows (2007)
Carsten Fink, Program World, Bank Comments, Clive Bell, ...
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) affect international trade flows when knowledge-intensive goods move across national boundaries. The importance of IPRs for trade has gained more significance as...
The Long-run Economic Costs of AIDS: (2007)
Theory And An, Clive Bell, Shantayanan Devarajan, Hans Gersbach
this paper, we argue that the long-run economic costs of AIDS are almost certain to be much higher -- and possibly devastating. We take a very different view of how the economy functions over the...
The Long-Run Economic Costs of AIDS: A Model with an Application to South Africa (2006)
Bell, Clive, Devarajan, Shantayanan, Gersbach, Hans
Primarily a disease of young adults, aids imposes economic costs that could be devastatingly high in the long run by undermining the transmission of human capital—the main driver of long-run...
The Long-Run Economic Costs of AIDS: A Model with an Application to South Africa (2006)
Bell, Clive, Devarajan, Shantayanan, Gersbach, Hans
Primarily a disease of young adults, AIDS imposes economic costs that could be devastatingly high in the long run by undermining the transmission of human capital--the main driver of long-run...
RATIONING, SPILLOVER, AND INTERLINKING IN CREDIT MARKETS: THE CASE OF RURAL PUNJAB (1997)
BELL, CLIVE, SRINTVASAN, T. N., UDRY, CHRISTOPHER
A parallel market structure may exhibit extensive rationing in the regulated segment, and hence spillover of unsatisfied demand into the unregulated segment of the market. In the latter segment, the...
Interactions between Institutional and Informal Credit Agencies in Rural India (1990)
In an attempt to expand rural credit and displace the village moneylender, India created a system of rural cooperatives in the 1950s and expanded branch banking into rural areas in the 1970s. This...
The Economic Implications of Epidemics Old and New
The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in the winter of 2002–03 raised the specter of a new, unknown and uncontrollable infectious disease that spreads quickly and is often...
Post-Independence India: A Case of Finance-Led Industrialization?
This paper examines whether financial intermediaries have played a leading role in influencing India's economic performance. After describing the evolution and functions of the financial sector, we...
The Long-Run Economic Costs of aids: A Model with an Application to South Africa
Clive Bell, Shantayanan Devarajan, Hans Gersbach
Primarily a disease of young adults, aids imposes economic costs that could be devastatingly high in the long run by undermining the transmission of human capital--the main driver of long-run...
The Macroeconomics of Targeting: The Case of an Enduring Epidemic
What is the right balance among policy interventions in order to ensure economic growth over the long run when an epidemic causes heavy mortality among young adults? We argue that, in general,...
The Economic Implications of Epidemics Old and New
The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in the winter of 2002–03 raised the specter of a new, unknown and uncontrollable infectious disease that spreads quickly and is often fatal....
Economic growth, education, and AIDS in Kenya : a long-run analysis
Bell, Clive, Bruhns, Ramona, Gersbach, Hans
The AIDS epidemic threatens Kenya with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to the formation of human capital and economic growth. To investigate this...
Growth and Enduring Epidemic Diseases
This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in...
Growth and Enduring Epidemic Diseases
This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in...
Child Labor and the Education of a Society
We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital through a combination of the quality of child-rearing and formal schooling. The...
Interlinkage, limited liability, and strategic interaction
Basu, Kaushik, Bell, Clive, Bose, Pinaki
The authors analyze the example of a landlord, a moneylender, and a tenant (the landlord having access to finance on the same terms as the money lender). It is natural to assume that the landlord has...
The long-run economic costs of AIDS : theory and an application to South Africa
Clive Bell, Shantayanan Devarajan, Hans Gersbach
Most existing estimates of the macroeconomic costs of AIDS, as measured by the reduction in thegrowth rate of gross domestic product, are modest. For Africa-the continent where the epidemic has hit...
Rural Poverty and Aggregate Agricultural Performance in Post-independence India.
This paper examines the movements in, and determinants of, rural poverty in India, using both new series and quite different econometric procedures form those employed in earlier studies....
Output, prices, and the distribution of consumption in rural India
This article analyzes the relation among agricultural output, inflation, and the distribution of consumption in rural India, using both the Singh-Maddala and Dagum families to model the entire...
The Macroeconomics of Targeting: The Case of an Enduring Epidemic
What is the right balance among policy interventions in order to ensure economic growth over the long run when an epidemic causes heavy mortality among young adults? We argue that, in general,...
We study the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when a society is assailed by an epidemic disease such as AIDS. We establish that the disease can severely retard...
The macroeconomics of targeting: the case of an enduring epidemic
What is the right balance among policy interventions in order to ensure economic growth over the long run when an epidemic causes heavy mortality among young adults? We argue that, in general,...
Communicable and related diseases account for a substantial share of the disease burden in developing countries. Given the “public” nature of these diseases, the allocation of resources in this...
CHILD LABOR AND THE EDUCATION OF A SOCIETY
This paper analyzes policies by means of which a whole society in an initial state of illiteracy and low productivity can raise itself into a condition of continuous growth. Using an overlapping...
AIDS and dualism : Ethiopia's burden under rational expectations
Bell, Clive, Koukoumelis, Anastasios
An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to capital formation and economic growth. The authors develop a two-sector model...
AIDS and Dualism: Ethiopia's Burden under Rational Expectations
Clive Bell, Anastasios Koukoumelis
An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to capital formation and economic growth. The authors develop a two-sector model...