On the role of governance and health aid on child mortality: a cross-country analysis

Applied Economics

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 845-859

  Tarverdi, Yashar ^a   Rammohan, Anu ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

child mortality; Foreign aid; governance; non parametric regression; system GMM

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; CHILD MORTALITY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INTERNATIONAL AID; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84978518698     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1208351     Document Type: Article

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