The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010 Study has published disability-adjusted life year (DALY) data at both regional and country levels from 1990 to 2010. Concurrently, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) has published estimates of development assistance for health (DAH) at...

As suggested in the literature, economic growth and inequality may be influenced by common determinants. One set of determinants may be stochastic production shocks, and in particular non-neutral shocks. To communicate this idea to undergraduate students, I present a model in which shocks to the...

Lu et al. found that health aid displaces domestically-raised government health expenditure, which renders health aid at least partially fungible. These findings are questioned in <italic>The Fungibility of Health Aid Reconsidered</italic>. Van de Sijpe's emphasis on disaggregating on- and off-budget aid is a...