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Shaken, not stunted? : global evidence on natural disasters, child growth and recovery

Cruzatti, John; Rieger, Matthias - 2024

A substantial share of the world's children reside in disaster-prone areas and suffer from stunted growth. Child growth … and catch-up in children exposed to comparable earthquakes in utero. Our analysis leverages within cluster or mother … document modest adverse effects on children's height that are more pronounced when earthquakes are more unexpected and higher …

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A review of external assistance and aid effectiveness for maternal and child health : challenges and opportunities

Bhutta, Zulfiqar Ahmed; Aleem, Samia - 2013

This paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards these specific interventions has varied greatly over...

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Aid and child health : local effects of aid on stunting in Malawi

Durevall, Dick; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie - 2022

reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, a country with very high stunting …,604 children under the age of 5. To identify the effect of aid, we rely on spatial and temporal variation in aid project coverage … already for children born in the early project implementation phase and lasts for children born up to 3 years after project …

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Effectiveness of Official Development Assistance for Tuberculosis Control by Governance of Recipients

Wee, Hye-Seung - 2017

To evaluate the importance of governance in controlling tuberculosis (TB), we explored the relationship between recipient countries' governance and TB control outcome. Using OECD statistics, World Development Indicators dataset, and Worldwide Governance Indicators database, we tested the role of...

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Health Aid, Governance and Infant Mortality

Doucouliagos, Hristos - 2019

We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by donor government fractionalization interacted with the...

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Health aid, governance and infant mortality

Doucouliagos, Chris; Hennessy, Jack; Mallick, Debdulal - 2019

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Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes? : evidence from household panel data in Uganda

Pickbourn, Lynda; Caraher, Raymond; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2022

impact of aid-funded WASH projects on the probability of stunting among Ugandan children and infants. Analysing aid …

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AIDS in the Digital Age : Evidence from Submarine Internet in Africa

Abbasi, Mansoureh; Pongou, Roland - 2022

This paper offers evidence of the causal impact of high-speed Internet on sexual behavior and HIV spread in Africa. Our identification strategy exploits individual-level data combined with information on the gradual arrival of submarine Internet cables in Africa’s coastal regions. Robust...

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Tracking Chinese Aid through China Customs : Darlings and Orphans after the COVID-19 Outbreak

Fuchs, Andreas; Kaplan, Lennart; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2022

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, China’s mask and vaccine diplomacy have been widely discussed, but the debate relies on a few stylized data points. This article introduces a systematic way to measure China’s foreign aid in almost real-time through official customs records of...

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Development Assistance for Health and the Role of NGOs in the Africa Region : The Case of the Central African Republic

Sidiropoulos, Symeon; Valachea, Stavroula; Kanakaki, … - 2022

In today's globalized society, financial aid for health is not only an obligation, but also a necessity to safeguard public health. Although efforts began long before the organization of the United Nations and later the targeted actions of the World Health Organization, a strong increase in DAH...

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