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It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However, evidence suggests that basic manufacturing industry is stagnant. This paper proposes a mechanism that ties these two trends together. A big-push type of model, featuring...
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new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization. …
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Europe's industrial base needs to undergo a swift and persistent transformation towards carbon neutrality and circularity, but this transition must happen in a fair and socially just manner. In this working paper, we evaluate the support mechanisms for heavy industry which have been put in place...
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In this paper we estimate the amount of tax evasion in customs authorities in both Kenya and Tanzania by calculating … measurement error is correlated with the tax rates in both Kenya and Tanzania. According to the Transparency International … Corruption Perceptions Index, Kenya is more corrupt than Tanzania, but we find that the coefficient on tax is higher in Tanzania …
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Kenya has ascribed to the Millennium Declaration and is already in the process of mobilising resources and instituting … measures to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A MDGs status report on Kenya indicates that progress has been made … requirements are not extremely large to reach the MDGs in Kenya. If the resources are effectively used and targeted to MDG sectors …
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The recent hike in food prices has been of great concern to policymakers, international organisations and donor agencies. In this paper we discuss, both from a partial and general equilibrium perspective, the impact of the recent price increase on maize on Kenyan households. Simulating a 100%...
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This paper determines which children work and how much children work in Kenya. The results show that the educational …
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The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the adoption of technological packages in agriculture Kenya on the … Government of Kenya. To this end, we collected data on beneficiaries through a survey of 1000 households in the district of … Lugari, in Western Kenya. We use propensity score matching to compute the average treatment effect on the treated. We find …
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In Kenya, educational enrollment rates increased significantly for both girls and boys after 2003, when primary … intercept probit model using data from the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey 2005/06 reveal that Somali and Maasai …
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farming households in Kenya, using data from the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey 2005/2006. Furthermore, we also …
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