Has massive distribution of insecticide-treated-nets contributed to the reduction in in- fant mortality in Sub … contrast, in highly malarious rural areas where bednet coverage reached high levels, above 75% of households, infant mortality … has been reduced by at least 3 percentage points, which amounts to 25% of the initial mortality. The identified impact is …

mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health services), concentrating on the countries that increased their health …, Rwanda, and Malawi, budget support did have a positive effect on health spending and, except for Rwanda, neonatal mortality … changes in government expenditures on health before and after the introduction of budget support. Second, I look at neonatal …

In 2010, the G8 placed renewed focus on maternal health via the Muskoka Initiative by committing to spend an additional … US$5 billion on maternal, newborn, and child health before 2015. Following the end of the Millennium Development Goals … and the advent of the Sustainable Development Goals, maternal health issues have continued to feature prominently on the …

We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 … demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002 … mortality at sub-national scales, but decreases mortality at the country-level. In several tests, we show that this stark …