Does health aid matter?

Mishra, Prachi; Newhouse, David

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.05.004

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“…For example, Mishra and Newhouse (2009) find that aid helps to lower infant mortality in recipient countries, while Michalowa and Weber (2006) and Dreher et al (2008) find evidence that aid may contribute to increasing primary school enrolment. Gormanee et al (2005a) also find that aid is associated with improvements in the Human Development Index.…”

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Impact of Sectoral Allocation of Foreign Aid on Gender Equity and Human Development

Pickbourn

Ndikumana

2013

SSRN Journal

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While developing countries have made some progress in achieving human development since the turn of the century, many are still lagging behind in important human development goals such as education, health, nutrition and access to clean drinking water and improved sanitation. Moreover, gender equity remains a major challenge in most countries. In this paper, we examine the role that foreign aid plays in generating these outcomes, using panel data from OECD-DAC on the sectoral allocation of development aid, in conjunction with country-level data on public expenditures, human development outcomes and other economic, social and political indicators. Specifically, the paper attempts to assess whether the volume of aid and its sectoral allocation have an impact on human development outcomes and gender equity. We find that the impact of aid on many of the outcomes we study is …/

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Impact of Sectoral Allocation of Foreign Aid on Gender Equity and Human Development

Pickbourn

Ndikumana

2013

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“…In fact, access to improved water sources and sanitation is related to health and survival to human capital (Mangyo, 2008;Tang et al, 2008;Mishra & Newhouse, 2009). In Developing countries (DC), contaminated drinking water is a major health hazard (Jalan et al, 2009) and water-related diseases are a significant contributor to the global burden of illness.…”

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Household Choice of Purifying Drinking Water in Cameroon

Totouom

Sikod

Abba³

2012

EMSD

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This study contributes to the still short literature on demand for drinking water quality in Africa by modeling Cameroonian households' choice of purifying drinking water. Specifically, the study seeks to: analyze households' access to water and various measures undertaken to improve water quality; identify the factors driving households' decision to purify drinking water. Our analysis uses data from the second Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey carried out in 2006 by the National Institute of Statistics. In order to control for possible simultaneity of the choice of drinking water source and the decision to purify water or not before drinking it, a bivariate probit model is used for discrete analysis. Most previous studies have neglected to consider this issue in their analysis. Our findings suggest that households' educational level has a positive and statistically significant impact on households' decision to purify water before drinking it. Results also reveal that wealth quintile, health status and number of children less than five years strongly affect households' decision. In particular, the magnitude of the wealth quintile impact on households' decision is larger than those of the other variables. Implications for drinking water policies are discussed.

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“…Previous examples of this more modest approach include: the effects of aid for education on school enrollment (e.g., Michaelowa and Weber 2007;Dreher et. 2008); the impact of aid for health on outcome variables such as infant mortality (e.g., Williamson 2008;Mishra and Newhouse 2009); aid for promoting democracy and better governance (e.g., Finkel et al 2007;Busse and Gröning 2009;Kalyvitis and Vlachaki 2010). Öhler et al (2010) employ a DDD approach, as we will do in the following, to assess whether an innovative US aid scheme, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, was successful in fighting corruption in recipient countries.…”

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Throwing Foreign Aid at HIV/Aids in Developing Countries: Missing the Target?

Nunnenkamp

Öhler

2010

SSRN Journal

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Does health aid matter?

Cited by 211 publications

References 43 publications

Impact of Sectoral Allocation of Foreign Aid on Gender Equity and Human Development

Impact of Sectoral Allocation of Foreign Aid on Gender Equity and Human Development

Household Choice of Purifying Drinking Water in Cameroon

Throwing Foreign Aid at HIV/Aids in Developing Countries: Missing the Target?

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