The impact of debt relief on under five mortality rate in Sub-Saharan Africa
作者： John Bosco Oryema , Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong , Gabriel Picone
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2017.1287211
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摘要: This paper examines the impact of Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative on under five mortality rate (U5MR) in Sub-Saharan Africa. The HIPC involves debt forgiveness and redirection funds that were meant to service external towards provision social services poverty reduction eligible countries. is akin a natural experiment since some countries benefited while did not, timing varied across We exploit these variations identify child using dynamic panel data estimator. find participation associated with statistically significant decreases U5MR. On other hand, actual cancelled insignificant.
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