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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
female genital mutilation are often associated with sexual behaviors, practices, and knowledge related to AIDS. This might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553669
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Discordant Couples : HIV Infection Among Couples in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania
de Walque, Damien - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553778
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Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya
Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553846
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Economic Analysis of Projects in a Greenhouse World
Hamilton, Kirk; Stover, Jana - 2012
Recent carbon market prices are substantially lower than mean or median estimates of the social cost of carbon in the literature. Intuition would therefore suggest that 'investment errors' are being made, in the sense that markets favor higher carbon-emitting projects, while global welfare would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557002
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An Analysis of Physical and Monetary Losses of Environmental Health and Natural Resources in India
Mani, Muthukumara; Markandya, Anil; Sagar, Aarsi - 2013
This study provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution damage categories: (i) urban air pollution; (ii) inadequate water supply, poor sanitation, and hygiene; and (iii) indoor air pollution. It also provides estimates based on three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557101
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The Cost of Adjustment to Green Growth Policies : Lessons from Trade Adjustment Costs
Porto, Guido - 2013
Green growth policies confront firms and workers with adjustments that may create welfare costs for different segments of the population and cause reductions in near-term actual versus potential gross domestic product. There is little evidence on the cost of adjustment to climate change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557127
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The Welfare Cost of Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa
Baquie, Sandra; Calcutt, Evie Isabel Neall; Gascoigne, Jon - 2024
This paper quantifies the impact of drought on household consumption for five main agroecological zones in Africa, developing vulnerability (or damage) functions of the relationship between rainfall deficits and poverty. Damage functions are a key element in models that quantify the risk of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014579952
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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