Analyzing the Aid Effectiveness on the Living Standard: A Check-up on South East Asian Countries

Zareena Irfan (), Arpita Nehra () and Mohana Mondal
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Arpita Nehra: Madras School of Economics

Working Papers from Madras School of Economics,Chennai,India

Abstract: The present research work aims to analyse the effect that the disaggregated developmental aid has had on the health status and the standard of living in the urban sector after the MDGs were established. Infant Mortality and Improved sanitation facilities are taken as indicators for health status and urbanisation respectively; and the relationship between disaggregated health aid with infant mortality rate and disaggregated aid for water and sanitation with improved sanitation facilities was analysed for the years from 2002-2012 using data from 8 developing countries of Southeast Asia. Findings suggest that the developmental aid has not been effective in both the health sector and urbanisation sector. Moreover, improvement in health status has been growth driven. With the advent of the Sustainable Development goals; the most important thing to ensure is that the disbursed aid is used effectively to achieve the very purposes it is being given for and to reduce the gaps in various classes of developing countries in the region.

Keywords: Disaggregated developmental aid; Aid for water and sanitation; Health Aid; Millennium Development Goals (MDG); Infant Mortality Rate; Improves sanitation Facilities; GDP; Health Expenditure; Aid Effectiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I13 I31 I38 O11 O53 Q01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2015-10
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