-level data on a sample of 47 developing countries are alternatively used. In addition to assessing the extent to which health aid … and remittances contribute to reduce child health disparities between countries, the paper addresses two other questions …. What is the net effect of migration when the brain drain of health workers is accounted for? What is the effective impact …

remittances reduce child mortality while MBD increases it. Health aid also significantly reduces child mortality but its impact is … belonging to households from the upper classes, whereas neither a pro-poor nor anti-poor effect is found for health aid. …