The impact of debt relief on under five mortality rate in Sub-Saharan Africa
Autor: | Gabriel Picone, John Bosco Oryema, Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
Economic growth
Natural experiment media_common.quotation_subject 030231 tropical medicine Population Developing country Social Welfare External Debt 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Debt 0502 economics and business Development economics Economics Humans 050207 economics education Africa South of the Sahara media_common education.field_of_study 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health External debt Child mortality Child Preschool Child Mortality Linear Models Panel data |
Zdroj: | Global Public Health. 12:795-807 |
ISSN: | 1744-1706 1744-1692 |
DOI: | 10.1080/17441692.2017.1287211 |
Popis: | This paper examines the impact of the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative on under five mortality rate (U5MR) in Sub-Saharan Africa. The HIPC Initiative involves debt forgiveness and the redirection of funds that were meant to service external debt towards the provision of social services and poverty reduction in eligible countries. The Initiative is akin to a natural experiment since some countries benefited while some did not, and the timing of debt forgiveness varied across countries. We exploit these variations to identify the impact of HIPC Initiative on child mortality using a dynamic panel data estimator. We find that participation in HIPC Initiative is associated with statistically significant decreases in U5MR. On the other hand, the impact of actual debt cancelled is statistically insignificant. |
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