Health Aid and Infant Mortality
April 1, 2007
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Summary
This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from 118 countries between 1973 and 2004. Health aid has a statistically significant effect on infant mortality: doubling per capita health aid is associated with a 2 percent reduction in the infant mortality rate. For the average country, this implies that increasing per capita health aid by US$1.60 per year is associated with 1.5 fewer infant deaths per thousand births. The estimated effect is small, relative to the targets envisioned by the Millennium Development Goals.
Subject: Estimation techniques, Health, Health care, Health care spending, Public expenditure review
Keywords: health aid, infant mortality, WP
Pages:
40
Volume:
2007
DOI:
Issue:
100
Series:
Working Paper No. 2007/100
Stock No:
WPIEA2007100
ISBN:
9781451866643
ISSN:
1018-5941
