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, measure integrity and other values of these groups, and use this data and data from Kenya to support one of the model …
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poverty reduction initiatives. HIV/AIDS is fast eroding the health benefits, which Kenya gained in the first two decades of … Kenya. Within this framework, the paper attempts to analyse the impact of HIV/AIDS on Kenya s economic growth by way of … productivity and labour force supply; asset accumulation of human, physical and social capital; and the gender channel. …
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Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …
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. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …
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Small farms and fragmented plots are hallmarks of agriculture in less-developed countries, and there is evidence of high returns to land consolidation and reallocation. Complementarities, holdout and asymmetric information mean that private trade will be slow to reallocate land, and imply that...
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rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices between 2000 and 2008 for Kenya, Tanzanian and Uganda. Distance is …
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evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker …
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design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary …
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In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance arrangements in developing countries, is sensitive to the extent to which in-dividuals can influence their risk exposure. With slum dwellers of Nairobi our design measures subjects'...
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medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. All participants in a business training program are offered training. One-third of …
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