Uganda is the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa and the third-largest worldwide. Because of ongoing conflicts and instability in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, Uganda is hosting over 1.33 million refugees and asylum seekers. The prolonged and steady influx of refugees...

This paper proposes a program for judicial reform which specifically addresses the main factors affecting the quality of court services, its monopolistic nature and the resultant inefficiency. The reform program also addresses the economic and legal causes at the root of an inefficient and...

The decline in commodity prices that began with metals and agriculture four years ago—joined by crude oil in mid-2014—continued in 2015Q1 (Figure 1). Energy, metals, and agricultural prices were down 28, 11, and 5 percent, respectively, from the previous quarter. Increasing supplies, bumper...