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This paper takes a critical look at available proxies of uncertainty. Two questions are adressed: (i) How do we evaluate proxies given that subjective uncertainty is inherently unobservable? (ii) Is there such a thing as a general macroeconomic uncertainty? Using correlations, some narrative...
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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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, we analyze income diversification among female-headed households in rural Kenya. Using a multinomial logit model, we find …
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This paper documents the development of a 2019 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Kenya. A special feature of this SAM … the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (e.g., the economic survey 2021 and the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census …), the Central Bank of Kenya (i.e., the Diaspora Remittances Survey), the Kenya Ministry of Health (i.e., the Kenya Malaria …
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