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Kenya Economic Update, April 2019, No. 19 : Unbundling the Slack in Private Sector Investment - Transforming Agriculture Sector Productivity and Linkages to Poverty Reduction
World Bank Group - 2019
The Kenyan economy rebounded in 2018 and economic activity in the first quarter of 2019 was healthy, although emerging drought conditions could curtail GDP growth for the remainder of the year. The economy expanded by 6.0 percent in the first three quarters of 2018 compared to 4.7 percent during...
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Future of Food : Maximizing Finance for Development in Agricultural Value Chains
Townsend, Robert - 2018
Current levels of investment in agricultural value chains are insufficient to achieve key development goals including ending poverty and hunger, boosting shared prosperity through more and better jobs, and better stewarding the world's natural resources by 2030. Crowding-in private investment to...
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Replication redux : the reproducibility crisis and the case of deworming
Ozier, Owen - 2019
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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Multilingual assessment of early child development : analyses from repeated observations of children in Kenya
Knauer, Heather A.; Kariger, Patricia; Jakiela, Pamela; … - 2019
vocabulary. This study assessed 505 children ages 2 to 6 in rural communities in Western Kenya with comparable vocabulary tests …
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Enhancing young children's language acquisition through parent-child book-sharing : a randomized trial in rural Kenya
Knauer, Heather A.; Jakiela, Pamela; Ozier, Owen; … - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004969
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Are they really being served? : assessing effective infrastructure access and quality in 15 Kenyan cities
Gulyani, Sumila; Rizvi, Andrea; Talukdar, Debabrata - 2019
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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Learning from power sector reform : the case of Kenya
Godinho, Catrina; Eberhard, Anton A. - 2019
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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School costs, short-run participation, and long-run outcomes : evidence from Kenya
Evans, David K.; Ngatia, Muthoni - 2018
-of-pocket schooling costs for children in poor communities in Kenya by providing school uniforms. The program used a lottery to determine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871241
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The impact of interest rate caps on the financial sector : evidence from commercial banks in Kenya
Safavian, Mehnaz; Zia, Bilal - 2018
deposits. This paper carefully documents these impacts on the formal financial sector in Kenya after the recent interest rate …
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Interest rate caps : the theory and the practice
Ferrari, Aurora; Masetti, Oliver; Ren, Jiemin - 2018
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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