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Official development assistance, income per capita and health outcomes in developing countries : is Africa different?

Nwude, E. Chuke; Ugwoke, Robinson O.; Uruakpa, Peter … - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-20

developing countries. Health outcome is proxied by life expectancy and under-5-mortality rate. We accounted for the endogeneity … developing countries. More specifically the prevalence of HIV increases the under-5-mortality rate and decreases life expectancy …; immunization increases life expectancy but decreases under-5-mortality rate. It was equally revealed in the study that health …

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The global joint distribution of income and health

Wu, Ximing (contributor); Savvides, Andreas (contributor); … - 2008

We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy...

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Health, income, and the Preston Curve : a long view

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2022

Well-being is increasingly viewed as a multidimensional phenomenon, of which income is only one facet. In this paper I focus on another one, health, and look at its synthetic measure, life expectancy at birth, and its relationship with per capita income. International trends of life expectancy...

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