Is the role of international health aid on adult mortality efficient? Evidence from developing countries using DEA approach

Arshia Amiri () and Asim Afridi ()
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Arshia Amiri: Shahid Chamran Ahwaz University
Asim Afridi: Aix-Marseille University

The Empirical Econometrics and Quantitative Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 2, issue 1, 43-50

Abstract: This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) method to investigate the efficiency rate of international aid on decreasing adult mortality developing countries over the period of 1995-2006. Result of efficiency rate of Aid on mortality confirms a high efficiency rate for developing countries. We also argue that our finding indicates that a high efficiency rate of international aid and health expenditures on decreasing mortality may be a signal of structural differences between low income, lower middle income and upper middle income countries.

Keywords: Efficiency; Health; DEA; Aid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C32 I10 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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