Effective poverty reduction programs require careful measurement of poverty status. Commonly used consumption or income-based classifications of poverty aggregate together households that are persistently poor with those who are only in poverty due to passing conditions. They al…
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After more than ten years, the Ogaden refugee problem persists. The factors producing the initial conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia continue to thwart a resolution which would allow the refugees to return to the Ogaden. Millions of dollars in international relief assistance …
The thesis concerns principles of criminal liability extant in the Canadian and Ethiopian legal systems. The principles selected are principles of legality, imputability, and culpability. Criminal liability is a summation of these principles. The discussion is limited to these t…
An integrated rural development project--the Chilalo Agricultural Development Unit (CADU) in South-central Ethiopia is investigated in the Social Learning framework to ascertain consistent convergence or divergence between stated project goals and actual programs. The research i…
A common plea in missions is the need to train pastors and church leaders for the rapidly multiplying churches in the Majority World, resulting in numerous formal and nonformal theological education training programs. In spite of these efforts, many rural churches remain without…
It has been repeatedly observed that home and local context matter in the education of children. A smooth transition between home and classroom prepares children for enjoyable and meaningful life-long learning. Knowledge building in children is influenced by previous experience,…
Water is one of the most precious but least valued common property resource. Efficient ways of water resources management are vital to socio-economic development and the overall feat of societal stability. However, water conflicts have further exacerbated the access to water esp…
In the face of high population growth and declining natural resource base, tackling rural poverty necessitates an increase in overall factor productivity or a rise in the market rate of return of assets possessed by the poor. Towards achieving these objectives, the role of spati…
The Oromo people of Ethiopia share a common language, worldview, set of sacred meanings, and a historic system of governance. The rise of the Abyssinian Empire in the late 1800s led to the colonization of the Oromo; their language and religion were made illegal, their homeland w…
This thesis will demonstrate the political, spiritual, social, and economic significance of the looted Magdala collection to the Ethiopian people. Looted by the British in 1868, the collection is Ethiopia’s cultural property that needs be returned to its native land. For, they a…
The contemporary phenomenon of the global rush for farmland has generated intense debate from different actors. While the proponents embrace it as a 'development opportunity', the critics dub it 'land grabbing'. Others use a neutral term: 'large-scale land acquisitions'. Whateve…
This thesis is concerned with social policy during structural transformation, focusing on the caseof Ethiopia. The thesis takes a realist, case-based approach to the study of social policy, whichrecognises that political actors construct the domain of 'social' policy within legi…
This study presents the religious dynamics of the Wolaitta Kale Heywet Church through the work of her evangelists in southern Ethiopia from 1937-1975 and seeks to determine why there has been such phenomenal growth within the Wolaitta church and, through the agency of her evange…
This thesis explores the opportunities, challenges, and initiatives for coffee tourism in the context of Ethiopia. My research addresses five themes to achieve its research aims, which are as follows: arriving at prospective coffee tourism frameworks; addressing the reasons behi…
Scope and method of study. The goal of this study is to investigate the roles of market structure and human capital in developing countries' (DC's) ability to expand exports of processed agricultural goods. The study provides three separate theoretical and empirical analyses bas…
There are signs everywhere that the era of the nation-state is fading and nowhere is this clearer than in Africa, where its roots are shallowest. The awkward marriage of the 'nation' in the sense of an ethnic coalition and the 'state' as the principal source of political authori…
This paper examines the dynamics of the secession. In particular, it asks why political actors decide to withdraw from the political center, how they go about it, and what makes the effort successful. The process is examined from the perspective of elite circulation. It is hypot…
The interest and motivation that encouraged the pursuit of this study are the results of the political and social reform initiatives which unfolded in 1991 in Ethiopia. A monarchy (late 19th century–1974) and a military-communist government (1974–1991) had favored a single Ethio…
Evidence from agronomy and bio-geography shows that northern Ethiopia is a center of origin of several economically important African plant domesticates that played a major role in the emergence of Neolithic societies. Although archaeologists have speculated on how and why these…