Working Paper in Infant Development
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Health Aid and Infant Mortality; Prachi Mishra and David Newhouse; IMF Working Paper 07/100; April 1, 2007
This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from 118 countries between 1973 and 2004. Health aid has a statistically significant effect on infant mortality: doubling per capita health aid is associated with a 2 percent reduction in the infant mortality rate. For the average country, this implies that increasing per capita health aid by US$1.60 per ye...
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