This paper employs data from 48 African countries over the period 1990-2010 to investigate the performance of African economies with respect to job creation and its relation to economic growth. We submit that the main drivers, among others, appear to be the creative use of the agricultural...

For many smallholders, agriculture is the main source of income, understanding how value chains work can derive many benefits to increase productivity and therefore farmers’ income. Many different stakeholders around the world are involved in the cocoa value chain, which is part of a...

Over the past decade, Mali has been engaged in a process of improving access and quality of education within the framework of the education for all of the Millennium Development Goals. An important aspect of that process is the participative schools’ management of local authorities through...

The study investigates the impact of decentralization and local government capacity on efficiency of health service delivery in Uganda applying qualitative analysis, and two stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) on quantitative data covering a sample of 44 districts over the period 2008/09 and...

This study attempts to examine the extent of leakage in the Cameroonian health sector and identify its sources. The analyses in the study are based on the Public Expenditure Tracking Survey data collected in Cameroon in 2004. The findings reveal that 18.8% of the actual budget allocations of...

Quality of care refers to all aspects of treatment that are beneficial to the patient. Process quality is used to mean beneficial aspects that arise during the process of providing healthcare, including the action of health professionals, waiting period, and the clarity of communication. This...

Ghana’s health service delivery is characterized by inadequate institutions and lack of accountability. One of the reasons for the introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana was to facilitate citizen participation and ownership of the health service delivery system....