Do African Countries Get Health from Health Aid?

Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong

Journal of African Development, 2015, vol. 17, issue 2, 105-142

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.

Keywords: Health Aid; Health Outcome; Domestic Health Expenditures; DPD Estimator; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 Q21 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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