How health aid benefits donor and recipient countries

By Anna Hope

This briefing sets out key findings of a new paper, ‘Can Development Assistance for Health Mutually Benefit Donor and Recipient Countries?’ by researchers Dr Gavin Yamey, Dr Osondu Ogbuoji and Ipchita Bharali from the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, Duke University. It forms part of a wider research project on mutual interest official development assistance (ODA) led by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Global Nation, supported by the Gates Foundation.

The paper is part of a project led by the Kiel Institute and Global Nation to examine and build the evidence base for mutual interest ODA – aid that genuinely serves recipients’ developmental goals and, in doing so, also benefits donor countries.