Aide au développement et santé comme droit humain

Bruno Boidin ()

Ethics and Economics, 2007, vol. 5, issue 1, 21

Abstract: As health is more and more recognized as a « human right », we can wonder if this tendency leads to an important increase in foreign aid for health. We try to show that aid has been considered for a few years as a big stake for international security. This approach focused on security issues is a very narrow use of the concept of global public goods. As a consequence, infectious disease is the priority of health assistance and other sub-sectors generally considered pro-poor are loosing chare in health funding. This evolution raises questions about efficiency and ethics in the fund allocation. We outline a few perspectives for the use of a different theoretical background in the aid for health.

Keywords: Development assistance; health; human right (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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