education and health in Africa in order to track progress in and across countries over time. It seeks to enhance effective and … Card on education and health. However, unlike traditional citizen report cards, it assembles objective information from …

on the quality of public health services. The program had a strong emphasis on organizing women, who also identified … health services as a development priority at baseline. Assessing the program at midline, the paper finds that the … mobilization effort alone had a significant impact on the performance of village-based health providers. The study detects …

This paper adopts a new approach to the issue of foreign aid fungibility. In contrast to most existing empirical … aid that is provided for education and health purposes to recipient public spending in these sectors. In addition, aid … previous failure to differentiate between on- and off-budget aid is shown to produce biased estimates of fungibility. Sector …

performance, health and education, political development, demographic trends, and conflict and security issues. For each of these …