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An Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity Approach to Examining Subnational Health Aid

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Achieving healthy lives and well-being for all, in line with Sustainable Development Goal 3, requires a multifaceted development approach underpinned by substantial investments. This chapter presents an argument for using disaggregated (micro level) information to develop evidence-based health aid policies. It calls for rethinking traditional notions of health aid allocation in two ways: first, by providing a broader perspective grounded in theory and research to assess health aid’s effectiveness, efficiency, and equity; second, by discussing the challenges that have constrained the research on health aid and how researchers are addressing these challenges.

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Dolan, C.B. (2019). An Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity Approach to Examining Subnational Health Aid. In: Dutta, N., Williamson, C.R. (eds) Lessons on Foreign Aid and Economic Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22121-8_4

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