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How Relevant Is Infrastructure to Growth in East Asia?
Seethepalli, Kalpana; Bramati, Maria Caterina; Veredas, … - 2012
This paper seeks to shed some light on the extent to which infrastructure sub-sectors - energy, telecommunications, water supply, sanitation, and transport - contributed to growth in East Asia during 1985-2004. It also attempts to provide additional insights on whether the relationship between...
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MTEFs and Fiscal Performance : Panel Data Evidence
Grigoli, Francesco; Mills, Zachary; Verhoeven, Marijn - 2013
In the last two decades more than 120 countries have adopted a version of a Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). These are budget institutions whose rationale it is to enable the central government to make credible multi-year fiscal commitments. This paper analyzes a newly-collected dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557070
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Impact of Intermittent Screening and Treatment for Malaria among School Children in Kenya : A Cluster Randomized Trial
Allen, Elizabeth; Brooker, Simon J.; Dubeck, Margaret M.; … - 2014
,233 children in 101 government primary schools on the south coast of Kenya in 2010-12. The intervention was delivered to children … were analyzed on an intention-to-treat basis. Anemia in this setting in Kenya, intermittent screening and treatment, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012573864
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Finding Missing Markets (and a Disturbing Epilogue) : Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya
Ashraf, Nava; Gin??, Xavier; Karlan, Dean - 2012
randomized controlled trial conducted by DrumNet in Kenya that attempts to help farmers adopt and market export crops. DrumNet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552263
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Modeling Services Liberalization : The Case of Kenya
Balistreri, Edward J.; Rutherford, Thomas F.; Tarr, David G. - 2012
the impact of the liberalization of regulatory barriers against foreign and domestic business service providers in Kenya … completed by specialists in Kenya. The authors estimate that Kenya will gain about 11 percent of the value of Kenyan consumption … that the largest gains to Kenya will derive from liberalization of costly regulatory barriers that are non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552344
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Kenya's Quest for Growth Stabilization and Reforms--But Political Stability?
Bandiera, Luca; Kumar, Praveen; Pinto, Brian - 2012
Kenya has long had a reputation of being politically risky, manifested in corruption, uncertainty about policies, and … the importance of political connections in doing business. Kenya began its economic liberalization in 1993. Reform picked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552474
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The Economic Impact of Climate Change on Kenyan Crop Agriculture : A Ricardian Approach
Kabubo-Mariara, Jane; Karanja, Fredrick K - 2012
This paper measures the economic impact of climate on crops in Kenya. The analysis is based on cross-sectional climate … these, and also constraints on adaptation mechanisms. The results suggest that farmers in Kenya are aware of short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552781
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What Has Driven the Decline of Infant Mortality in Kenya?
Demombynes, Gabriel; Trommlerov??, Sofia Karina - 2012
-Saharan Africa. Kenya's infant mortality rate has fallen by 7.6 percent per year, the fastest rate of decline among the 20 countries … in the region for which recent Demographic and Health Survey data is available. Kenya's rate of postneonatal deaths per 1 … widespread ownership of insecticide-treated bednets in areas of Kenya where malaria is rare suggests that better targeting of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553355
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Tracking Poverty over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data
Stifel, David; Christiaensen, Luc - 2012
methodology is illustrated using a series of Demographic Health Surveys from Kenya …
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Who Gets AIDS and How? The Determinants of HIV Infection and Sexual Behaviors in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania
de Walque, Damien - 2012
This paper analyzes the determinants of HIV infection and associated sexual behaviors using data from the first five Demographic and Health Surveys to include HIV testing for a representative sample of the adult population. Emerging from a wealth of country relevant results, four important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553669