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Community-Driven Development : Myths and Realities
Wong, Susan - 2018
Community-driven development is an approach to development that emphasizes community control over planning decisions and investment resources. Over the past decade, it has become a key operational strategy for many national governments, as well as for international aid agencies, with the World...
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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970754
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Resolving the African Financial Development Gap : Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya
Allen, Franklin - 2017
metropolitan areas, the analysis focuses on Kenya, which has made significant strides in financial inclusion and development in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974025
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Banking Sector Stability, Efficiency, and Outreach in Kenya
Beck, Thorsten - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976347
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School Costs, Short-Run Participation, and Long-Run Outcomes : Evidence from Kenya
Evans, David - 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/10012920302
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Radio's Impact on Preferences for Patronage Benefits
Keefer, Philip - 2017
Citizens in developing countries support politicians who provide patronage or clientelist benefits, such as government jobs and gifts at the time of elections. Can access to mass media that broadcasts public interest messages shift citizens' preferences for such benefits? This paper examines the...
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Strengthening Malaria Service Delivery Through Supportive Supervision and Community Mobilization in an Endemic Indian Setting : An Evaluation of Nested Delivery Models
Das, Ashis - 2017
Malaria continues to be a prominent global public health challenge, in part because of the slow population adoption of recommended preventive and curative behaviors. This paper tests the effectiveness of two service delivery models designed to promote recommended behaviors, including prompt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973151
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Pedagogy versus School Readiness : The Impact of a Randomized Reading Instruction Intervention and Community-Based Playgroup Intervention on Early Grade Reading Outcomes in Tonga
Macdonald, Kevin Alan David - 2017
Identifying cost-effective interventions to improve early literacy is vital to developing countries, given the importance of early literacy for an individual's future education outcomes and subsequent human capital formation. This paper presents the impact on early grade reading outcomes of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965193
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Blending Top-Down Federalism with Bottom-Up Engagement to Reduce Inequality in Ethiopia
Khan, Qaiser - 2017
Donors increasingly fund interventions to counteract inequality in developing countries, where they fear it can foment instability and undermine nation-building efforts. To succeed, aid relies on the principle of upward accountability to donors. But federalism shifts the accountability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970482
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Improving Educational Quality Through Enhancing Community Participation : Results from a Randomized Field Experiment in Indonesia
Pradhan, Menno Prasad - 2017
This study evaluates the effect of four randomized interventions aimed at strengthening school committees, and subsequently improving learning outcomes, in public primary schools in Indonesia. All study schools were randomly allocated to either a control group receiving no intervention, or to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975770