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This paper evaluates Kenya's food price crisis over 2002 - 11 using a political economy approach. Kenya's food prices … about 30 per cent of the changes in world market prices are transmitted to domestic markets in Kenya. The study finds a … relatively slow speed of adjustment of domestic food prices in Kenya of between three to five months. In response, the government …
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Government of Kenya (GoK) integrated gender in a pronounced way in the design and implementation of the Kenya Agricultural …
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implementers. An innovative cash transfer programme in northern Kenya trialled three targeting mechanisms to learn lessons about …
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. But has the rise of the African middle class promoted democratic consolidation? This paper uses the case of Kenya to …
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sources such as solar and wind. We use a system-level model for Kenya to evaluate the potential of using grid-connected solar … unit commitment model whereby Kenya's extensive reservoir hydro-system compensates for solar intermittency. Results show …
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Three major policy regimes, namely import substitution, market liberalization and export promotion have greatly influenced Kenyan industrialization since independence in 1963. Overall, import substitution strategy was successful in establishing some primary industries but led to reduced domestic...
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We use Arndt and Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Madagascar in 2001, 2005 and 2010. Because two major political crises occurred between the survey periods, the snapshots of national poverty rising from 56.3 per cent in 2001 to 59.6...
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This paper seeks to measure and explain changes in incomes, inequality, and poverty in Kenya. It starts from a very …
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This paper mainly analyses the drivers of economic growth in Kenya and the linkages to the labour market dynamics, with … that Kenya, as the ninth largest economy in Africa and the fourth largest in sub-Saharan Africa and with a locational …
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promises are achievable and therefore deemed credible. Using evidence from the Constituency Development Fund in Kenya, this …
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