Abstract
There has been little assessment of the role the MDGs have had in progressing international development. There has been a 41 per cent reduction in the under-5 mortality rate worldwide from 1990 to 2011 and an acceleration in the rate of reduction since 2000. This paper explores why this has occurred and results for all developing countries indicate that it is not due to more healthcare or public health interventions but is driven by a coincidental burst of economic growth. Although the MDGs are considered to have played an important part in securing progress against poverty, hunger and disease there is very little evidence to back this viewpoint up. A thorough analysis of the successes and failures of the MDGs is therefore necessary before embarking on a new round of global goals.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1312-1325 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Health Economics |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| Early online date | 04 Aug 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2016 |
Keywords
- Millennium Development Goals
- child mortality
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- Did the Millennium Development Goals Change Trends in Child Mortality?
Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: French, D. (2016) Did the Millennium Development Goals Change Trends in Child Mortality?. Health Econ., 25: 1312–1325., which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/hec.3218/abstract. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving
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Declan French
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- Health and Human Development Initiative
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