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In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...
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vocabulary. This study assessed 505 children ages 2 to 6 in rural communities in Western Kenya with comparable vocabulary tests …
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Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack adequate nutrition and cognitive stimulation in early childhood. Several parent support programs have shown significant benefits for children's development, but the programs...
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This paper proposes a framework that examines three levels of access to infrastructure-nominal, effective, and quality-adjusted access. Most conventional indicators measure nominal access-whether a household has physical access to a service in or near the house. By contrast, effective access...
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Two successive waves of reform have fundamentally altered the structure and organization of Kenya's vibrant power …. Although the government retains majority ownership of the largest power utilities in the country (Kenya Power, ~51 percent …; KenGen, ~70 percent), Kenya has been able to position itself as one of the foremost destinations in the region for private …
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-of-pocket schooling costs for children in poor communities in Kenya by providing school uniforms. The program used a lottery to determine …
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deposits. This paper carefully documents these impacts on the formal financial sector in Kenya after the recent interest rate …
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Ceilings on lending rates remain a widely used policy tool that is intended to lower the overall cost of credit or protect consumers from exorbitant rates. Interest rate caps come in many forms and scopes and, according to their rationale, ceilings can affect a small segment or the overall...
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This paper discusses the landscape for private equity and venture capital financing in Kenya. It provides an overview …/regulatory/taxation drivers and impediments that affect Kenya's private equity and venture capital industry …
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Improving the livelihoods of poor households and transitioning more women back to the labor force is a major challenge … in South Asia. Self-employment promoted through women's groups has often been cited as a promising intervention towards … achieve its primary objective of improving livelihoods by transitioning more women into work. The program has also expanded …
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