Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67391 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel und Hamburg
Abstract: 
This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from in total 135 countries (for the purposes of this study, developing countries), between 1975 and 2010. Utilizing both conventional Instrumental Variable and System GMM approaches, a tentative conclusion can be drawn that 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.
Subjects: 
Health Oriented Aid
Infant Mortality Rates
Panel Instrumental Variable
System GMM
MDG
JEL: 
F35
C23
C33
I10
Additional Information: 
This paper is based on the author's MSc dissertation at the University of Nottingham. Title of the original work: Impact of Health Aid on Infant Mortality Rates, also available at EconStor: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/67334
Document Type: 
Preprint

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