The objectives of this paper are: measure the prevalence of rural poverty in 1997 and 2000, based on the nationwide … Tegemeo survey; categorize households according to whether they were above the poverty line in both 1997 and 2000, entered … into poverty or exited from poverty between 1997 and 2000, or were above the poverty line in both years; identifies the …

This study explores the dynamics of poverty in Kenya. The study specifically examines how initial conditions, household … decisions, and other factors that may change over time affect poverty. Dynamic relationships are identified between behavioral …

escaping from poverty as well as descending into poverty; 3) to determine effects of compound disadvantages on the likelihood … of chronic poverty; and 4) to assess the evidence of spatial poverty traps (SPTs). Quantitative analysis is conducted … those households found to have risen from poverty (starting in the bottom tercile and ending in the top tercile, the …

perception in Kenya that fertilizer use is not expanding quickly enough and that application rates are not high enough to reverse …

This paper uses information from rural household surveys in 24 districts in Kenya to inform current debate on maize …