Chinese Aid to African Countries

Do African Countries Get Health from Health Aid?

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 small but statistically significant positive impact on health outcomes in African countries. Health aid is found to be more effectiv...

Bilateral foreign aid: How important is aid effectiveness to people for choosing countries to support?

We conduct a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to determine how important aid effectiveness is to people relative to other criteria for choosing countries to support with bilateral foreign aid. We find that aid effectiveness is important, on a par with recipient-country need as proxied by the level of hunger and malnutrition. Both criteria are more important than others.

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries

Planning prosthetic and orthotic programmes to aid developing countries.

At present there is a profusion of agencies and governments which send missions of prosthetics and orthotics experts into developing countries. Included are the U N , the World Rehabil i tat ion Fund , the Wor ld Heal th Organization, the Social and Rehabili tat ion Service of H E W , Public Hea l th Service, certain religious organ­ izations, H O P E ship, and perhaps others. These agencies se...

Climate Change, Green Growth and Aid Allocation to Poor Countries

With serious impacts of climate change looming in a few decades, but current poverty still high in the developing world, we ask how to spend development aid earmarked for the poor. Poverty reduction tends to be strongly linked to economic growth, but growth impacts the environment and increases CO2 emissions. So can greener growth that is more climate-resilient and less environmentally damaging...