Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand.
Health Econ. 2011 Jul;20(7):757-69. doi: 10.1002/hec.1631.
Despite anecdotal evidence that the quality of governance in recipient countries affects the allocation of international health aid, there is no quantitative evidence on the magnitude of this effect, or on which dimensions of governance influence donor decisions. We measure health-aid flows over 1995-2006 for 109 aid recipients, matching aid data with measures of different dimensions of governance and a range of country-specific economic and health characteristics. Everything else being equal, countries with more political rights receive significantly more aid, but so do countries with higher corruption levels. The dependence of aid on political rights, even when we control for other governance indicators, suggests that health aid is sometimes used as an incentive to reward political reforms.
尽管有传闻证据表明受援国的治理质量会影响国际卫生援助的分配，但对于这种影响的程度，或者哪些治理维度会影响捐助者的决策，尚无定量证据。我们针对 109 个援助接受国，在 1995 年至 2006 年期间衡量了卫生援助流量，将援助数据与不同维度的治理措施以及一系列特定国家的经济和卫生特征进行了匹配。在其他条件相同的情况下，政治权利较多的国家获得的援助明显更多，但腐败程度较高的国家也是如此。援助对政治权利的依赖，即使我们控制了其他治理指标，也表明卫生援助有时被用作奖励政治改革的激励措施。
