Health Aid and Infant Mortality

April 1, 2007

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David Locke Newhouse, and Prachi Mishra. Health Aid and Infant Mortality, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed September 20, 2024

Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate

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

Publication Details

Pages:

40
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Working Paper No. 2007/100
Stock No:

WPIEA2007100
ISBN:

9781451866643
ISSN:

1018-5941

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