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15-21 juni 2008, Universiteit Twente
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On October 19, Prof. Ton Dietz, fellow of AIID, received an honorary doctorate from the MOI University Kenya.
He is professor of Human Geography, University of Amsterdam and Director of AGIDS.
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The AIID is pleased to announce the winners of the WorldBank - AIID Thesis Competition in International Development 2006
PhD category
Dr Wendy Janssens (Tinbergen Institute/VU) for her thesis entitled "Social Capital and Cooperation - An Impact Evaluation of a Women's Empowerment Programme in Rural India".
Master's category
Mr. Jonas Sebhatu (Maastricht University) for his thesis entitled "Finance and growth; Can Policy have an Impact? - an analysis of systematic heterogeneity in the relationship between financial development and growth."
During the awarding ceremony in August 2007 mr. Herman Wijffels, executive director of the World Bank first gave a lecture on "Globalization and Development Policy".
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Together with the World Bank, the AIID improved the Early Child Development (ECD) Calculator. This program allows you to calculate the economic benefits of comprehensive Early Child Development programs. The calculator focuses on the benefits of ECD programs that become apparent through a better ability to take advantage of the schooling system. Children who participated in ECD programs are more likely to enroll on time, have better learning capacities, are less likely to repeat classes or drop out, and have a higher probability to progress to secondary and higher levels of schooling. The result is a better educated population (or birth cohort). The benefits, to individuals and to society, of higher levels of education are enormous.
You can download the ECD calculator from this website.
ECD Calculator
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Two new and innovative studies in the field of International Development are currently being performed by the AIID. Both studies are so-called ‘impact evaluations’. Impact evaluation assesses changes in the well-being of individuals that can be attributed to a particular project, program or policy. It is aimed at providing feedback to help improve the effectiveness of programs and policies. Information generated by impact evaluations informs decision makers on whether to expand, modify, or eliminate a particular policy or program and can be used in prioritizing public actions.
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The socio-economic and bio-medical impact of the introduction of affordable insurances (including AIDS treatment) in Namibia
The AIID started a new and innovative private sector health care project in Namibia. The aim of the project is to provide affordable insurance coverage for the cost of basic health care, including AIDS treatment to Namibians working in the formal and informal sector. This new and innovative research will provide important insights in all four dimensions of health care systems: the funds, the administration systems, the medical service delivery and the patient selection. The project’s target groups include AIDS patients in urgent need of highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART), volunteers working for various NGO’s and approximately 15,000 individuals working in the formal and informal sector in greater Windhoek, Namibia.
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On March 26, 2007, Professor Jan Willem Gunning received an honorary doctorate from the University of Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand, France), together with his long-time collaborator Paul Collier, of the University of Oxford.
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From 2006 to 2009, the AIID will conduct a longitudinal impact evaluation of the Roving Caregivers Programme (RCP) in the Caribbean island of St Lucia. RCP is a home visiting programme aimed at vulnerable families with children in the age group from birth to three years old. Its main objective is the introduction of appropriate child rearing practices in order to support the healthy development of young children. The quantitative impact evaluation of RCP will yield evidence on the effect of home-visiting programmes on the development of targeted children, their families and the broader community. The evaluation is designed as a quasi-experimental study, consisting of a baseline survey and at least three follow-up survey rounds of children enrolled in the programme as well as a matched control group. The study is financed by the Bernard van Leer Foundation.
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AIID workshop on the Economic Consequences of AIDS
Amsterdam , December 15 and 16, 2006
Summary of Discussion
Jacques van der Gaag en Sweder van Wijnbergen
If nothing is done to combat the epidemic, a complete economic collapse will occur in three generations. Bell et al.,2003.
The AIDS epidemic, on net, enhances the future per capita consumption possibilities of the South African economy. Alwyn Young, 2004.
The human suffering as a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic is there for all to see. Since the first confirmed case in 1981, 22 million people have died of AIDS (and AIDS related infections), more than 40 million currently live with AIDS, and every year, more than 5 million additional people are infected. In some countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), decades of progress in life expectancy have been wiped-out by the pandemic, and there will be an estimated 20 million AIDS orphans in SSA by the year 2010.
The economic consequences of all of this are being hotly contested, as the two quotes above show. Serious researchers (in this case, both looking at the same country) come to vastly different conclusions. The Amsterdam Institute for International Development (AIID) held a workshop in December 2006 to discuss the causes of such differences and to determine what additional research is needed to bring more clarity to this, and other HIV/AIDS related issues. Twenty six scholars came together to discuss seven recent papers. This note summarizes the main results of the papers and the discussions.
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