Following Anderson and van Wincoop (2003, 2004), exporter-time and importer-time dummies are employed to control for the multilateral resistance, sector dummies control for unobserved heterogeneities of each machinery sector, while exporter importer dummies are added to guard against unobserved heterogeneities on the relation of each country pair (Baier and Bergstrand 2007).
Respondents from the development sector (multilateral and bilateral partners) stated that rolling out of the provincial health sector strategies is an opportune time to invest in MNCH.
"The private sector, multilateral development banks and other donors will be important partners in the delivery of aid for trade outcomes," the policy document said.
It is also crucial that it work hand-in-hand with the state sector, multilateral investment and philanthropists to promote economic development, employment and wellbeing.
Bilateral aid to the east African country is delivered through channels including the Ugandan government, the private sector, multilateral bodies and NGOs.
In FY 2008/9, the latest available data for both multilateral and bilateral sector disbursements, DFID spent £901 million on direct 'aid to health'.
We analysed data from the 2008/9 financial year (FY) (the most recent and complete for both multilateral and bilateral sector spending) to base our assessment on ODA disbursements rather than projections, extracting data from DFID's management information system.
Various United States government entities, the host government, NGOs, and representatives from the corporate sector, multilateral institutions and other local stakeholders are all involved in PEPFAR planning, which is carried out in parallel with the national planning effort [ 3].
Better collaboration in DRR will make it easier to support existing bilateral and multilateral collaborative mechanisms within sectors, and programs with an effect on DRR such as fire management, water management, forestry, and the environment.
With the notable exception of international humanitarian organisations, the 'tri-sector partnership model' promoted by the corporate sector and multilateral development agencies thus draws from the same categories of actors that define the core elements of the formal health sector in a resource curse environment.
