Department of Economics, Ghana Communication Technology, Accra, Ghana.
Int J Health Plann Manage. 2023 Sep;38(5):1495-1509. doi: 10.1002/hpm.3675. Epub 2023 Jun 23.
Aside from being a health issue, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) has an economic impact on Africa and Ghana in particular. Despite this, fewer empirical studies have examined the effect of the disease on economic growth from a gender point of view. This study aims to investigate the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on economic growth in Ghana. The paper uses time series data spanning 1990-2018 to estimate the impact of HIV/AIDS from a gender perspective. The Cobb-Douglas aggregate function and the Granger Causality test were used to examine the determinant of growth and the direction of causality, respectively. The study's finding shows a unidirectional feedback causality running from HIV/AIDS to economic growth. Controlling for varieties of factors, the study found that HIV/AIDS has a negative significant impact on economic growth in both the short and long-run periods in Ghana. From the gender perspective, the impact of HIV/AIDS on growth was higher in the case of males when compared to females.
除了是一个健康问题外，人类免疫缺陷病毒/获得性免疫缺陷综合征（HIV/AIDS）对非洲，特别是加纳，也有着经济影响。尽管如此，从性别角度研究该疾病对经济增长影响的实证研究较少。本研究旨在调查 HIV/AIDS 流行对加纳经济增长的影响。本文使用 1990-2018 年的时间序列数据，从性别角度估计 HIV/AIDS 的影响。柯布-道格拉斯综合函数和格兰杰因果检验分别用于检验增长的决定因素和因果关系的方向。研究结果表明，HIV/AIDS 与经济增长之间存在从 HIV/AIDS 到经济增长的单向反馈因果关系。控制各种因素后，研究发现 HIV/AIDS 在加纳短期和长期都对经济增长产生负面影响。从性别角度来看，与女性相比，HIV/AIDS 对男性增长的影响更大。
