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Does democracy reduce the HIV epidemic? : evidence from Kenya
Marsaudon, Antoine; Thuilliez, Josselin - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011686473
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Is results-based aid more effective than conventional aid? : evidence from the health sector in El Salvador
Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, Pablo; Martinez, Sebastian - 2018
Results-based aid (RBA) models link funds to outcomes, rather than paying for inputs. Despite their theoretical appeal and recent adoption by donors and multilateral development banks, there is limited empirical evidence supporting this form of aid for national governments. We estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011783927
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Can a wage subsidy be used to improve women's formal employment in Zambia
Simuchimba, Bupe; Chansa, Frank; Banda, Charles; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267383
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Re-imagining money to broaden the future of development finance : what Kenyan community currencies reveal is possible for financing development
Bendell, Jem; Slater, Matthew; Ruddick, William - 2015
currency used in poor urban areas in Kenya, to demonstrate how currency innovation can work for poor people. The Kenyan non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484974
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Feed the children
Cherchye, Laurens; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Rock, Bram de - 2021
To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in Nairobi, we conduct an experiment with 424 married couples. In the experiment, the spouses (individually and jointly) allocated money between themselves and nutritious meals for one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012631505
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How Africa borrows from China: and why Mombasa Port is not collateral for Kenya's standard gauge railway
Bräutigam, Deborah A.; Bhalaki, Vijay; Deron, Laure; … - 2022
In December 2018, a leaked letter from Kenya's Auditor General warned that the Kenya Ports Authority's assets - of … which Mombasa Port is the most valuable - risked being taken over by China Eximbank if Kenya defaulted on the Standard Gauge … Railway loans. The rumor that Kenya had used Mombasa Port as collateral for the railway became widely accepted globally as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206379
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Higher education expansion and social inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa : conceptual and empirical perspectives
Lebeau, Yann; Oanda, Ibrahim O. - 2020
(Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal), the paper highlights how issues of inequalities and inequity in access to and participation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294797
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Profiling tourists for balanced utilization of tourism-based resources in Kenya
Odunga, Pius; Folmer, Henk - 2004
Kenya is predominantly a nature-based tourism destination with wildlife (concentrated in the southern part of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600026
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Cost and cost-effectiveness of a pre-primary school program in Kenya
Donfouet, Hermann Pythagore Pierre; Ngware, Moses; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098904
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"A public and a private university in one" : equity in university attendance in Kenya since the liberalization reforms of the 1990s
Simson, Rebecca; Harris, J. Andrew - 2020
Until the 1990s Kenya had a selective state-financed university system where students bore few educational costs. This … socioeconomically privileged backgrounds too. We also show that intergenerational persistence in university access in Kenya is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012183390