HIV/AIDS: The Impact on Poverty and Inequality
Gonzalo Salinas, Markus Haacker
Using available data on the distribution of HIV/AIDS prevalence across population groups for four sub-Saharan African countries and transposing this information to household income and expenditure...
Growth before and after trade liberalization
Salinas, Gonzalo, Aksoy, Ataman
The empirical study of the impact of trade liberalization has not convinced the skeptics about the economic gains after trade reforms. Some have even argued that trade reforms have led to economic...
Explaining Episodes of Growth Accelerations, Decelerations, and Collapses in Western Africa
Gonzalo Salinas, Patrick A. Imam
The growth literature has had problems explaining the "sub-Saharan African growth dummy" in cross-country regressions. Instead of taking the usual approach of focusing on long-run growth and assuming...
The Macroeconomic Impact of Scaled-up Aid: The Case of Niger
Gonzalo Salinas, Abdikarim Farah, Emilio Sacerdoti
We develop a simple macroeconomic model that assesses the effects of higher foreign aid on output growth and other macroeconomic variables, including the real exchange rate. The model is easily...