Abschlussarbeit (Master)

Impact of Health Aid on Infant Mortality Rates

This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from in total 135 countries, between 1975 and 2010. According to the findings, aid comes to have a statistically significant and positive effect on infant mortality rate, as doubling of aid leads to an approximately 1.3% reduction in infant mortality rates. Thus for an average aid recipient country, doubling per capita aid leads to a reduction of about 790 deaths per million live births in a particular year. This effect, in comparison to the set goals of the Millennium Development Goals, is small and may not be enough to ensure that the MDG targets are met by 2015.

Language
Englisch

Classification
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Foreign Aid
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Health: General
Subject
Health Aid
Infant Mortality Rates
System GMM
Instrumental Variables
Public health insurance
Child mortality
Method of moments
Instrumental variables estimation

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Yousuf, Ahmed Sadek
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
The University of Nottingham
(where)
Nottingham, UK
(when)
2012

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Object type

  • Abschlussarbeit (Master)

Associated

  • Yousuf, Ahmed Sadek
  • The University of Nottingham

Time of origin

  • 2012

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