Evaluating the Effects of Large Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative

Nava Ashraf, Günther Fink, David N. Weil

NBER Working Paper No. 16069
Issued in June 2010

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We are extremely grateful to David Fiocco and Richard Sedlmayr, who did all the field work required to assemble the data. We are also grateful to Dr. Elizabeth Chizema, Pascalina Chanda, Henry Kansembe, and Dr. Victor Mukonka of the Ministry of Health, to Busiku Hamainza and the National Malaria Control Programme as a whole, and to John Miller of Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership Africa (MACEPA). Primary funding for this project came from the NBER Project on African Development Successes. Additional funding for data workshops in Zambia was provided by MACEPA, Malaria Consortium, World Bank, and the Zambia Ministry of Health. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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