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Namibia: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

March 11, 2005

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Namibia: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed October 10, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix paper analyzes the macroeconomic impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, as well as its repercussions on fiscal policy of Namibia. The paper seeks to assess the macroeconomic impact of HIV/AIDS under a successful implementation of Medium-Term Plan III (MTP III) that would lower the prevalence rate to below its 2004 level. The paper also identifies the effect of HIV/AIDS on the real GDP growth rate over the medium term through a source of growth model that estimates the impact of HIV/AIDS on the factors of production.

Subject: Civil service, Health, HIV and AIDS, Human capital, Income, Labor, National accounts, Wages

Keywords: Africa, AIDS epidemic, AIDS orphan, Civil service, CR, Global, HIV and AIDS, Human capital, Income, Income tax, ISCR, MTP III, Namibia, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Wage, Wage bill, Wages

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    94

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2005/096

  • Stock No:

    1NAMEA2005001

  • ISBN:

    9781451828399

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685