The reduction in deaths from diarrheal diseases is one of the significant public health successes of the twentieth century. That said, the disease still accounts for a significant burden of childhood morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Progress made in the past has, to a...

This study uses a new foreign aid measure to correlate aid flows with subsequent reductions in child and infant mortality rates in a cross-country panel dataset. The improved aid measure corrects for interest payments and loan cancellations (Roodman, 2006), and counters earlier evidence that...

Our objective is to test the hypothesis that aid can improve the welfare of the poor. Part of this effect is direct, if aid is targeted on the poor, and part is indirected, via the transmission channel of aid-financed public spending on social services - sanitation, education and health. This...