Lu et al. found that health aid displaces domestically-raised government health expenditure, which renders health aid at least partially fungible. These findings are questioned in The Fungibility of Health Aid Reconsidered. Van de Sijpe's emphasis ondisaggregating on- and off-budget aid is a valid contribution, although his empirical conclusions are overstated. We re-evaluate the data he criticises and find they sufficiently capture on-budget aid. To re-measure health aid fungibility, we update theLu et al data, adding 23 countries and four years of data. Despite the confidence we have in these data, we employ two estimation specifications, each of which addresses the measurement error discussed by Van de Sijpe. The extended data and alternative methods show that development assistance for health channelled to governments remains significantly fungible.
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机译：Lu等。发现卫生援助取代了国内筹集的政府卫生支出，这使得卫生援助至少可以部分替代。这些发现在《重新考虑卫生援助的可行性》中受到质疑。范德西佩（Van de Sijpe）强调将预算内和预算外援助分开，这是有效的贡献，尽管他的经验结论被夸大了。我们对他批评的数据进行了重新评估，发现它们足以捕获预算内的援助。为了重新测量保健援助的可替代性，我们更新了Lu等人的数据，增加了23个国家和四年的数据。尽管我们对这些数据有信心，但我们采用了两个估计规范，每个规范都解决了Van de Sijpe讨论的测量误差。扩展的数据和替代方法表明，向政府提供的卫生发展援助仍然具有很大的替代性。
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