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Health and climate risks Location: Auditorium A: Victor D. Norman Session Chair: Daniela Miteva, The Ohio State University | |
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Dams, Snails and Poverty Traps University of Exeter, United Kingdom Irrigation schemes are one of the most important policy responses designed to reduce poverty, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Concomitantly, they facilitate the propagation of waterborne parasitic diseases endemic in many developing countries, which are both drivers and consequence of poverty. I present a novel theoretical framework which shows how the joint dynamics of disease dynamics, river and mobility networks and the production decisions of farmers create Pareto-inferior endemic Nash equilibria, and how the wealth-dependent disease reproduction rate (the R0) can generate poverty traps. A stochastic extension of the model shows how this rate controls the probability flow between the system attractors. Local disease and poverty conditions are shown to be transported on the network generated by human mobility. Social optima require deviations from separable allocations proportional to the disease burden on the maximized utility paths. Complete information on the feedback between wealth and disease can potentially allow farmers to escape the poverty trap. I focus on the case of schistosomiasis in Burkina Faso, and using both mobility and river networks I map the areas at risk of disease-driven poverty traps. | |