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This study estimates the impact of Kenya's post-election violence on individual risk preferences. Because the crisis …
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The economic outlook for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2015 is slightly more favorable than in 2013-14, when the region as a whole grew at 3 percent a year. The World Bank group's latest MENA Economic Monitor projects MENA's economic growth to average 5.2 percent in 2015...
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Access to justice is a 'big tent' for law programs broadly writ and has been so for over 25 years. Traditionally, access to justice has been treated as a category of interventions rather than a heuristic device from which to learn and experiment. In the old, old days, access to justice meant...
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Using surveys and administrative data from post-war Liberia, the hypothesis that peacekeeping deployments build peace "from the bottom up" through contributions to local security and local economic and social vitality was tested. The hypothesis reflects official thinking about how peacekeeping...
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least ten of the other SDGs. This assessment of Kenya's ID system was undertaken under the umbrella of the World Bank … also financing the Kenya Transparency and Communications Infrastructure (KTCIP) project to scale up digital inclusion and e … Kenya May 18-28. Its broad objective was to better understand the nature and capabilities of Kenya's ID system, its role in …
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Following ten years of relatively robust economic growth, Kenya achieved lower-middle-income country status in 2014 …. The remarkable expansion of telecommunications and mobile financial services shifted Kenya's economic paradigm to an … drivers of economic growth in Kenya, along with their fiscal implications. Chapter 2 describes Kenya's progress in reducing …
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subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic …. For Kenya, the results of the analysis affirm that Nairobi County is the largest contributor to national gross domestic … official statistics in Kenya and Rwanda, it is important to estimate subnational gross domestic product using standard …
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Kenya may be at a "tipping point," the theme of the third Kenya economic update which has a special focus on the … sectors, and have contributed to the conditions for Kenya to reach this tipping point. Kenya has entered the new decade with … favorable regional environment have created a new positive economic momentum. Kenya may again be positioned to experience high …
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Kenya is entering a decisive year. Three main developments will make 2012 extraordinary. First, Kenya will hold … national elections for the first time since the traumatic post-election violence of 2007-08, which ended Kenya's high growth … momentum abruptly. Second, Kenya's economy will need to navigate through a severe economic storm, which could well become a …
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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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