This paper seeks to measure and explain changes in incomes, inequality, and poverty in Kenya. It starts from a very … income, inequality and poverty over time, and to explain why they evolved in the way they did. We relate changes in … inequality and poverty to changes in factor endowments and changes in economic and employment structures. We also provide some …

. Nowadays, Kenya faces high levels of poverty and inequality: 36 percent of the population live below the poverty line and the … reduce poverty and promote income equality in Kenya. Using econometric models we show the effect of consumption taxes on … das Erlangen von weniger Ungleichheit. Derzeit prägen Armut und Ungleichheit Kenia: 36 Prozent der Bevölkerung leben unter …

We use Arndt and Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in … national poverty rising from 56.3 per cent in 2001 to 59.6 per cent in 2005, and to 61.4 per cent in 2010, are not necessarily … indicative of a trend of persistently rising poverty. Complementary data indicate that in the time periods between the shocks …

poverty and inequality. We find that the epidemic lowers average income and increases poverty, and that the jump in poverty is … larger than expected from the fall in average income. This disproportionate increase in poverty reflects the large share of … the population living on the threshold of poverty and the higher HIV prevalence rates in those segments of the population …

explores two key food markets in Kenya – sugar and maize – and argues that a variety of factors conspire to distort market … recent available representative household survey data – the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS) 2005/6. Relaxing … trade barriers to allow sugar prices to fall by even only 20 percent could reduce poverty by 1.5 percent. Similarly …

, the results do not support the feminization of poverty hypothesis in Kenya. Factors that have bridged the gender poverty …Gender poverty differences in households are likely to affect female-headed households more than male-headed households …. This paper examined the evolution of the gender poverty rate gap and identified the factors that underlie differences in …