to starting and running businesses than do their male counterparts. Gender and Economic Growth in Kenya examines the …

This assessment of poverty and inequality comes at an important juncture for Kenya. The December 2007 elections and …, and for policy makers. The violence in early 2008 highlighted the importance of addressing poverty and inequality as major … credit crunch has also shown how poverty and public service delivery related vulnerabilities could be exacerbated by external …

About half of Kenya's rural population (approximately 9 million people) was the poverty line in 1992, a proportion … poverty line. In the early 1980s, Kenya's social indicators were distinctly more favorable than those of most countries in the … differences between rural and urban areas and between the poor and the non-poor. These are the findings of the Kenya poverty …

A Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) was undertaken by the World Bank in collaboration with the Government of Kenya … to complement previous statistical studies of poverty in Kenya. While the PPA confirmed many findings of the Welfare … Monitoring Survey (WMS), it also revealed significant new data concerning poverty, female-headed households, access by the poor …

The objective of this study is to contribute to the ongoing dialogue on police reform in Kenya, where poor police … economic development and poverty reduction. Five years after launching a series of programs and pilot projects to improve … police performance, the government of Kenya concluded that the reform program achieved only limited success: the country is …

following sound monetary and fiscal policies. Finally, the report's third message focuses on the poverty situation in Kenya …, noting progress made since 2005, when an estimated 47 percent of the population lived below the poverty line, to the present …, where poverty estimates range between 34 and 42 percent, the imprecision resulting from the lack of any recent survey data …

Kenya may be at a "tipping point," the theme of the third Kenya economic update which has a special focus on the … sectors, and have contributed to the conditions for Kenya to reach this tipping point. Kenya has entered the new decade with … favorable regional environment have created a new positive economic momentum. Kenya may again be positioned to experience high …

Kenya is entering a decisive year. Three main developments will make 2012 extraordinary. First, Kenya will hold … national elections for the first time since the traumatic post-election violence of 2007-08, which ended Kenya's high growth … momentum abruptly. Second, Kenya's economy will need to navigate through a severe economic storm, which could well become a …