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pastoral setting from Kenya. Our results suggest that household decisions are contested, with husbands using migration …
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context of the rapid expansion of M-PESA, a new technology in Kenya that allows payments via mobile phones (even without any …
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This paper compares the relative impact of two road safety interventions in the Kenyan minibus or matatu sector: a top down set of regulatory requirements known as the Michuki Rules and a consumer empowerment intervention. We use very detailed insurance claims data on three classes of vehicles...
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In Kenya's arid and semi arid lands (ASALs), drought is the most pervasive hazard, natural or otherwise, encountered by … households on a widespread level. This is especially true for northern Kenya, where more than 3 million pastoralist households … are regularly hit by increasingly severe droughts. In the past 100 years, northern Kenya recorded 28 major droughts, 4 of …
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Northern Kenya from the considerable drought‐related livestock mortality risk that they face. Detailing the conditions that … make the pastoral economy in Northern Kenya an ideal candidate for the provision of index‐based insurance products, the … district of Northern Kenya in early 2010 …
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In economies with weak enforcement of traffic regulations, drivers who adopt excessively risky behavior impose externalities on other vehicles, and on their own passengers. In light of the difficulties of correcting inter-vehicle externalities associated with weak third-party enforcement, this...
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-Shwari in Kenya. While 34% of those eligible for a loan take it, the loan does not substitute for other credit. The loans …
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experiments in Morocco, Peru, and Kenya …
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-Shwari in Kenya. While 34% of those eligible for a loan take it, the loan does not substitute for other credit. The loans …
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