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Do African Countries Get Health from Health Aid?

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  • Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong

    (Department of Economics, University of South Florida)

Abstract

This paper uses panel data from African countries and a dynamic panel data (DPD) estimator to investigate the effects of health aid on health outcomes as well as the effects of health aid on health expenditures from domestic resources. I find that health aid has a statistically significant positive impact on health outcomes in African countries. Health aid is found to be more effective in improving health outcomes in countries that increase health spending from domestic resources above the sample mean and those with better governance. I also find that health aid marginally increases health expenditure from domestic sources in African countries, all things equal, suggesting that the effect of health aid on health outcomes may be larger than the direct effect. The results are robust to several specifications and estimation methods.

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  • Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, 2015. "Do African Countries Get Health from Health Aid?," Journal of African Development, African Finance and Economic Association (AFEA), vol. 17(2), pages 105-142.
    • Handle: RePEc:afe:journl:v:17:y:2015:i:2:p:105-142
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    1. Kaonga, Oliver & Masiye, Felix & Kirigia, Joses Muthuri, 2022. "How viable is social health insurance for financing health in Zambia? Results from a national willingness to pay survey," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 305(C).
    2. Kotsadam, Andreas & Østby, Gudrun & Rustad, Siri Aas & Tollefsen, Andreas Forø & Urdal, Henrik, 2018. "Development aid and infant mortality. Micro-level evidence from Nigeria," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 59-69.
    3. Francis Annan & Belinda Archibong & Uche Ekhator-Mobayode, 2023. "The Epidemic Effect: Epidemics, Institutions and Human Capital Development," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 076, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
    4. Didier Wayoro & Leonce Ndikumana, 2019. "Impact of Development aid on infant mortality : Micro-level evidence from Cote d’Ivoire," UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers 2019-07, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics.
    5. Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm, 2021. "Effect of Development Aid on Productive Capacities," EconStor Preprints 233973, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    6. Welander, Anna, 2016. "Does Debt Relief Improve Child Health? Evidence from Cross-Country Micro Data," Working Papers 2016:29, Lund University, Department of Economics.
    7. Archibong, Belinda & Annan, Francis & Ekhator-Mobayode, Uche, 2023. "The epidemic effect: Epidemics, institutions and human capital development," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 211(C), pages 549-566.
    8. Ndikumana, Léonce & Pickbourn, Lynda, 2017. "The Impact of Foreign Aid Allocation on Access to Social Services in sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Water and Sanitation," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 90(C), pages 104-114.
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    Keywords

    Health Aid; Health Outcome; Domestic Health Expenditures; DPD Estimator; Africa;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
    • Q21 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
    • R58 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Planning and Policy

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