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Can Market-Based Approaches to Technology Development and Dissemination Benefit Women Smallholder Farmers? A Qualitative Assessment of Gender Dynamics in the Ownership, Purchase, a...

Njuki, Jemimah; Waithanji, Elizabeth; Sakwa, Beatrice; … - 2014

income management. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study undertaken in Tanzania and Kenya to examine women … increasingly using market-based approaches to disseminate technologies to smallholder farmers, and, although women are among their … targeted group, little is known of the extent to which these approaches are reaching and benefiting women. There is also little …

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Government Expenditures in Kenya, 1950–2014 : Determinants and Agricultural Growth Effects

Benin, Samuel; Odjo, Sunday P. - 2019

Annual data on Kenya from 1950 to 2014 are used to analyze the determinants of the level and composition of government …

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Improving Food Safety on the Farm : Experimental Evidence from Kenya on Agricultural Incentives and Subsidies as Public Health Investments

Hoffmann, Vivian; Jones, Kelly - 2018

Evidence continues to mount that foodborne illness imposes a staggering health burden in developing countries. However, standard approaches used by developed country governments to ensure food safety are not appropriate in settings where regulatory enforcement capacity is weak and most firms are...

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Firm Heterogeneity in Food Safety Provision : Evidence from Aflatoxin Tests in Kenya

Moser, Christine; Hoffmann, Vivian - 2015

in eastern and central Kenya, we explore the relationship between price, brand, and aflatoxin contamination. Aflatoxin is …

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NAIP Toolkit for Malabo Domestication : Economic Modeling of Agricultural Growth and Investment Strategy Case Study of Kenya

Fofana, Ismael - 2019

and simulation of the Malabo goals on poverty and hunger. The modeling framework is applied to Kenya using the most recent … data. The Malabo Agenda simulation results indicate that Kenya's current nonagriculture-led growth is not sufficient to …

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Organizational and Institutional Issues in Climate Change Adaptation and Risk Management : Insights from Practitioners’ Survey in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mali

Ragasa, Catherine - 2013

adaptation. Data were collected in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mali using both an e-survey platform and face …

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Public Account and Coding System in Kenya : The Trend and Pattern of Agricultural Expenditure

Yu, Bingxin - 2015

/2011, this paper first reviews the institutional arrangement and budgeting process in Kenya, followed by a description of the … structure of public expenditure account in Kenya. The expenditure data are aggregated according to clearly delineated …

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Heterogeneous Pro-Poor Targeting in India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Liu, Yanyan; Barrett, Christopher B. - 2013

India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the largest public works employment project in the world. Its most direct poverty reduction pathway is through boosting employment and income for the poor. How effectively this direct transfer mechanism reduces...

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The Political Economy of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Spending in Andhra Pradesh

Sheahan, Megan; Liu, Yanyan; Barrett, Christopher B.; … - 2014

While government spending on pro-poor community asset creation and income-transfers could have compounding positive effects on poverty reduction, it is important to first study trends in the allocation of funds, particularly as they relate to the susceptibility of the program to political...

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Welfare and Poverty Impacts of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India

Deininger, Klaus; Liu, Yanyan - 2017

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally. Understanding the impacts of NREGS and the pathway through which its impacts are realized thus has important policy implications. We use a three-round 4,000-household panel from...

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