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Spatial Distributions of Job Accessibility, Housing Rents, and Poverty in Nairobi, Kenya

Nakamura, Shohei - 2018

distributions of job accessibility, housing rents, and poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. It finds that workers and jobs are not well … connected in the city: Nairobi residents can on average access fewer than 10 percent of existing jobs by foot within an hour … costly in Nairobi, not only because housing quality and living conditions tend to be better in such areas, but also job …

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Survey of the Kenyan Private Equity and Venture Capital Landscape

Divakaran, Shanthi - 2018

This paper discusses the landscape for private equity and venture capital financing in Kenya. It provides an overview of the private equity and venture capital market in the country, describing key players, including funds, fund managers, investors, and public sector entities. The paper provides...

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Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition Through Parent-Child Book-Sharing : A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya

Knauer, Heather Ashley - 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...

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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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Learning from Power Sector Reform : The Case of Kenya

Godinho, Catrina - 2019

Two successive waves of reform have fundamentally altered the structure and organization of Kenya's vibrant power sector, which boasts a tradition of strong technical and commercial performance. In the first wave -- beginning in 1996 and largely donor-driven -- policy and regulatory functions...

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Deal or No Deal : Strictly Business for China in Kenya?

Sanghi, Apurva - 2017

Existing work on China's economic influence in Africa refers to Africa in broad terms, thereby generalizing the results to an extent that is unhelpful for policy-makers in a specific country. Moreover, the emphasis is on oil exporters. This paper remedies this by focusing on a single,...

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Bright Lights, Big Cities : Measuring National and Subnational Economic Growth in Africa from Outer Space, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda

Bundervoet, Tom - 2017

. For Kenya, the results of the analysis affirm that Nairobi County is the largest contributor to national gross domestic …

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The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Jakiela, Pamela - 2017

This study estimates the impact of Kenya?s post-election violence on individual risk preferences. Because the crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, this timing creates plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to civil conflict by the time of the...

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The Impact of Private Sector Internship and Training on Urban Youth in Kenya

Honorati, Maddalena - 2017

Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu counties by the Kenya Private Sector Alliance and the Government of Kenya with support from the …

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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David J. - 2017

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms, where the majority of the labor force in developing countries works? This study developed 26 questions that measure business practices in marketing, stock-keeping,...

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