Title:
The Relationship between HIV Infection Rates and GDP Per Capita in African Countries

dc.contributor.author Essig, Andrew
dc.contributor.author Kang, Soheui
dc.contributor.author Sellers, Reba
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Economics en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2015-04-20T16:56:04Z
dc.date.available 2015-04-20T16:56:04Z
dc.date.issued 2015-04
dc.description.abstract 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 simple regression model using data of 2005 GDP per capita along with number of adults and children living with HIV as the independent variable. After resulting in a negative but weak correlation, we further alter this model by adding multiple independent variables including HIV/AIDS deaths, arable land per capita, labor force, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) percentage, life expectancy, exports, imports, and people living with HIV. By using multiple regression, our results indicate that both the number of people living with HIV and HIV related deaths in a country negatively affects its economy. en_US
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53303
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject HIV/AIDS en_US
dc.subject Africa en_US
dc.subject Regression models en_US
dc.subject GDP per capita en_US
dc.title The Relationship between HIV Infection Rates and GDP Per Capita in African Countries en_US
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dc.type.genre Undergraduate Research Paper
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local.contributor.corporatename School of Economics
local.contributor.corporatename Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
local.relation.ispartofseries Economics: Econometric Analysis
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