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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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that population density appears to be considerably more important for banking sector development in Africa than elsewhere … metropolitan areas, the analysis focuses on Kenya, which has made significant strides in financial inclusion and development in …
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Although Kenya's financial system is by far the largest and most developed in East Africa and its stability has … of Kenya's banking system, using aggregate, bank-level, and survey data. Banks' asset quality and liquidity positions …
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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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This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …
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This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing...
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the consequent stake in economic stability. This paper examines why such a process has not happened in Africa. The … neither the political weight nor the analytic capacity to play this role effectively. Yet in Africa, housing has never …
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growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in … colonial period? The paper attempts to explain these trajectories by using country case studies on Senegal, Botswana, and Kenya …
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's economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … even in kinship structures in pre-colonial Africa, utilizing the concepts of "rights in persons" and "wealth in people …." Reviewing the processes of production and reproduction, it explains why most slaves in pre-colonial Africa were women and …
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selected countries in Africa over the years 2001-2012. It uses data from five emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China …, and South Africa) and advanced countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States … emerging economies and advanced countries has increased labor productivity growth and employment in Africa, when human capital …
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