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Book Chapter: AIDS and the Accumulation and Utilization of Human Capital in Africa

December 1, 2004


In this chapter from Markus Haacker’s book on the macroeconomic implications of HIV/AIDS, Nancy Birdsall and Amar Hamoudi discuss the effect AIDS has on the supply of and demand for education in Africa.

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