All three authors are members of the Centre for Historical Economics and Related Research at the University of York.
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Special Issue Article
Chasing mosquitoes: An exploration of the relationship between economic growth, poverty and the elimination of malaria in Southern Europe in the 20th century†
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2008
DOI: 10.1002/jid.1513
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Journal of International Development
Special Issue: Historical Roots of Poverty (Mosley and Bowden)
Volume 20, Issue 8, pages 1080–1106, November 2008
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Bowden, S., Michailidou, D. M. and Pereira, A. (2008), Chasing mosquitoes: An exploration of the relationship between economic growth, poverty and the elimination of malaria in Southern Europe in the 20th century. J. Int. Dev., 20: 1080–1106. doi: 10.1002/jid.1513
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Abstract
This paper explores how the elimination of malaria could provide an escape from poverty with reference to the timing of the decline in malaria and its implications in terms of the labour force, the implications for the agricultural sector and the growth of the tourist industry in Portugal, Spain, Greece and Italy in the first half of the twentieth century. The paper finds that whilst the control of malaria did have an economic effect, the escape from poverty was encouraged but not explained by malaria elimination. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.