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This paper examines dynamic patterns of investment in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe, assessing the …
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This paper undertakes a survey of theoretical considerations and an analysis of the experience of five African countries with interest rate liberalization. Despite substantial progress in monetary policy reforms, liberalization has only partially affected the level and variability of interest...
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The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya …: (1) training teachers in the Kenyan Government's HIV/AIDS-education curriculum; (2) encouraging students to debate the … role of condoms and to write essays on how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS; and (3) reducing the cost of education …
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The AIDS epidemic threatens Kenya with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to … counterfactual in which there is no epidemic. Although AIDS does not bring about a catastrophic economic collapse, it does cause …
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paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two … surprising findings about the dynamics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic which have important implications for policy. First, at least two …
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female genital mutilation are often associated with sexual behaviors, practices, and knowledge related to AIDS. This might …
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de facto pursuing a strategy more akin to a Taylor Rule. Estimations of small-scale models for Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania … place in Kenya and Tanzania. In Uganda, these errors are much smaller, in fact similar in size to Taylor Rule deviations …
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