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Bienvenido Ortega1, Jesús Sanjuán2, Antonio Casquero2
1Departamento de Economía Aplicada (Estructura Económica), Universidad de Málaga, Campus El Ejido, 29071, Málaga, Spain. ortega@uma.es.
Abstract:
The main aim of this article was to analyze the relationship of income inequality and government effectiveness with differences in efficiency in the use of health inputs to improve the under-five survival rate (U5SR) in developing countries. Robust Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and regression analysis were conducted using data for 47 developing countries for the periods 2000-2004, 2005-2009, and 2010-2012. The estimations show that countries with a more equal income distribution and better government effectiveness (i.e. a more competent bureaucracy and good quality public service delivery) may need fewer health inputs to achieve a specific level of the U5SR than other countries with higher inequality and worse government effectiveness.
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