Development Assistance for Health as a Weapon Against Threats of Infectious Diseases: Evidence from aid for HIV and Tuberculosis

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Abstract: Prior research on allocation of development assistance (DAH) for health has focused primarily on recipient need, and not on provider interest. Provider interests, in the form of financial or welfare benefits, can influence donor behavior by affecting prioritization of goals or modifying aid amounts. Shiffman (2006) proposes that funding for HIV and tuberculosis have risen disproportionately because of their burden on industrialized countries, while funding for malaria – a tropical disease – has remained relatively low. Of many possible forms of provider interest, this paper focuses on the incentives of the donor states to protect the public health of its own residents by allocating DAH to the control of infectious diseases abroad. If this incentive does exist, I expect the DAH amount for a disease to increase with the domestic prevalence of the disease in the donor country. I use a multiple regression strategy to estimate the effect that prevalence has on DAH allocated per year to HIV and tuberculosis from 1990 to 2009. My analysis provides evidence that HIV and TB prevalence in donor country positively affects international health aid granted for those diseases.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 2011

Author	Min, Ji Sun
Primary advisor	Bhattacharya, Jayanta
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Economics

Subject	Stanford Department of Economics
Subject	provider interest
Subject	aid allocation
Subject	development assistance for health
Subject	public health
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/yz965zm7592

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Preferred Citation: Min, Ji Sun. (2011). Development Assistance for Health as a Weapon Against Threats of Infectious Diseases: Evidence from aid for HIV and Tuberculosis. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/yz965zm7592

Stanford University, Department of Economics, Honors Theses

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