Can Foreign Health Assistance Reduce the Medical Brain Drain?

Yasser Moullan

No 2009039, LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

Abstract: This paper analyses the impact of foreign health aid on the emigration rates of physicians. We use a panel database to investigate the emigration of physicians from 192 source countries to 17 destination countries between 1995 and 2004. First, we investigate the direct impact of health assistance using the generalised method of moments (GMM) and highlight a significant negative effect of foreign health assistance on the medical brain drain. Moreover, we analyse whether this effect of health aid is more effective in a context of good governance. We find that health aid is more effective at reducing physicians' emigration rates when the levels of corruption and inflation are low.

Keywords: International Migration; Physicians Emigration Rates; Foreign Aid; Foreign health assistance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 F22 F35 I1 O11 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 2009-12-03
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