The fungibility of health aid reconsidered

Nicolas Van de Sijpe

No 2013-10, CSAE Working Paper Series from Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: This paper draws further attention to the importance of taking into account off-budget aid when estimating the degree of foreign aid fungibility. It does so by re-evaluating the results of a recent, influential paper which concluded that health aid is fully fungible in the long run. Allowing for the presence of off-budget aid indicates that the degree of fungibility of health aid is much more uncertain than at first blush appears. Under plausible assumptions about the role of off-budget aid, the conclusion of full fungibility is overturned and at most only a limited degree of fungibility is found.

Keywords: foreign health aid; fungibility; public health expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 F35 H51 I18 O23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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