The economic and social burden of malaria

By J. Sachs, P. Malaney. Nature, 2002

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Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Safety Research

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In Nutrition and Dietetics

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Citations in the corpus

• Poor institutions, rich mines: resource curse and the origins of the Sicilian mafia (2012, background): “Previous research has documented that the environment can influence economic performance directly, through its effect on health and agricultural productivity (Landes, 1998; Sachs and Malaney, 2002), and indirectly, by setting the conditions in which social norms and political institutions have forme”
• Cross‐Country Determinants of Early‐Stage Necessity and Opportunity‐Motivated Entrepreneurship: Accounting for Model Uncertainty (2018, neutral): “As with animals, humans in tropical regions have also been exposed to a terrifying array of diseases borne by insects and bacteria, such as malaria (Gallup, Sachs, and Mellinger 1999; Sachs and Malaney 2002).”
• Hydroclimate risk to economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa (2011, background): “In addition, Sub-Saharan Africa carries a disease burden that is exacerbated by epidemic outbreaks of malaria linked to climate variability (Sachs and Malaney, 2002).”
• The Transcriptome of the Intraerythrocytic Developmental Cycle of Plasmodium falciparum (2003, background): “is responsible for the vast majority of the 300–500 million episodes of malaria worldwide and accounts for 0.7–2.7 million annual deaths. In many endemic countries, malaria is responsible for economic stagnation, lowering the annual economic growth in some regions by up to 1.5% (”
• Risk, Cooperation and the Economic origins of social Trust: an empirical Investigation (2009, neutral): “Previous research has documented that the environment can influence economic performance directly, through its effect on health and agricultural productivity (Landes, 1998; Sachs and Malaney, 2002), and indirectly, by setting the conditions in which sociopolitical institutions have formed (Sokoloff ”
• The Effect of the Tsetse Fly on African Development (2015, background): “Communicable disease has often been explored as a cause of Africa’s underdevelopment (Bloom and Sachs, 1998; Gallup and Sachs, 2001; Sachs and Malaney, 2002).”
• The Environment and Directed Technical Change (2012, neutral): “under the same constraints as for the baseline model, except that equation (7) becomes (36), and the productivity growth in the South equation (37).”