Does radio access improve public service provision? And if so, does it do so by increasing government accountability to citizens, or by persuading households to take advantage of publicly-provided services? Prior research has argued that citizens with greater access to mass media receive greater benef...

Since it began operating in the 1990s in northern Uganda, the LRA has inflicted enormous suffering on millions of civilians in several countries of the Great Lakes and Central African regions. In the 1990s and early 2000s, suc¬cessive Ugandan People s Defense Force (UPDF) operations in northern Uganda...

This report discusses the World Bank aided Women's Development Initiatives Project (WDIP), under implementation in Ethiopia. The study assesses the empowerment status of Ethiopian women in both rural and urban areas, and evaluates the impact of participation in WDIP on women's empowerment. Empowerment...