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Using a unique dataset of maize samples and consumer interviews form Eastern Kenya, we find that the presence of the …
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. Using World Bank survey data from three countries, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya, this research addresses the senders’ and … or Asia. Ethiopia and Uganda recipients tend to receive a larger amount than those living in Kenya. The effects of … characteristics on remittance amounts are very similar between the countries. Only, Kenya appears to differ in three of the eighteen …
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This study analyzes the implications of increasing population density in Kenya’s rural areas on smallholder production … productivity. Currently 14% of Kenya’s rural population resides in areas exceeding this population density. The study concludes by …
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Kenya is a small open economy that depends on energy for growth. Since independence in 1963, it has experienced … play a major role in energy consumption in Kenya. …
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in Kenya. We then estimate demand for the most common soil nutrients (N and P). We find that, consistent with theory …
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We decompose yield difference relative to a reference level into components attributable to (1) efficiency difference, and movements along the frontier due to (2) land quality, to (3) land size, and to (4) other inputs. The production frontier is built using nonparametric methods requiring no...
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instability in Kenya. Using the Rotterdam model to estimate EU demand for roses from Kenya and other global competitors, we find … evidence of a structural change in the import growth rate for Kenya, approximately equivalent to an 18.6% tariff. These results …
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Replaced with revised version of paper 07/26/07.
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estimate an Error Corrected Almost Ideal Demand System for four major cereals consumed in Kenya employing annual data from 1963 … statistically significant and all cereals are necessities both in the short-run and in the long-run in Kenya. …
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This paper determines the demand for a forestry program amongst rural households in western Kenya. It is based on a … respondent (men likely to plant more trees than women), and availability of agricultural labor at the household (positive) were …
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