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Fungibility of Donor Assistance to Liberia: Focusing on Aid to the Health Sector, a case study

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The main purpose of this work is to develop a case study assessing the recent patterns and impacts of ODA (official development assistance) and DAH (development assistance for health) to Liberia on overall government spending and domestic revenue generation as well as domestic government health spending. Specifically, the study will examine the recent flows of ODA and DAH resources into the country and test whether it is possible to determine the degree of fungibility in domestic budgetary expenditures and revenues, overall, as well as in domestic health budgetary spending and receipts (from internal and external sources) as a result of (or due to) ODA and DAH. The study will distinguish between targeted/earmarked aid and general budget support, and will attempt to distinguish commitments from actual disbursements (both for DAH and for government).

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  • Alan Fairbank, 2014. "Fungibility of Donor Assistance to Liberia: Focusing on Aid to the Health Sector, a case study," Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Discussion Paper Series 88183, The World Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:hnpdps:88183
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    Aid; aid effectiveness; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; arrears; budget constraint; capital expenditures; capital investment; Creditor; Currency; debt; debt forgiveness; debt relief ... See More + debt service; debt service payments; decentralization; decision making; deconcentration; developing countries; developing country; development assistance; disbursement; disbursements; discount rate; diseases; domestic borrowing; donor funding; donor funds; donor investments; economic crisis; economic development; Economic growth; economic policy; employer; equal amount; equal amounts; expatriate; expenditure; expenditures; external financing; external funds; finances; financial assistance; financial flows; Financial Management; financial management capacity; fiscal efforts; fiscal policies; fiscal policy; foreign direct investment; funding sources; fungible; government budget; government budgets; government expenditure; government expenditures; government financing; government policy; government revenue; Government revenues; government spending; health care; health expenditures; health policies; Health Policy; health services; HIV/AIDS; Human Development; income level; income tax; International Bank; International Development; investment spending; judicial system; key challenge; local governments; macroeconomic data; matching funds; ministries of finance; nominal prices; Nutrition; outstanding debt; public expenditures; Public health; public investment; public spending; receipts; regional development banks; resource allocation; revenue mobilization; rule of law; social services; Social Welfare; source of funds; statistical analyses; tax; tax efforts; tax relief; tax system; technical assistance; tranche; transaction; Trust Fund; Union;
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