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Financial Inclusion and Financial Integrity: Aligned Incentives?
de Koker, Louis; Jentzsch, Nicola - In: World Development 44 (2013) C, pp. 267-280
The Financial Action Task Force embraces financial inclusion as complementary to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, as it enhances transparency. This support is based on the premise that the increased use of formal financial services leads to a reduction of usage of informal...
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Does Commercial Microfinance Belong to the Financial Sector? Lessons from the Stock Market
Brière, Marie; Szafarz, Ariane - In: World Development 67 (2015) C, pp. 110-125
This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full advantage of daily … quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should consider microfinance as a self-standing sector …. Our results are threefold. First, microfinance has become less risky and more closely correlated with the financial sector …
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Aiding and Abetting: Project Aid and Ethnic Politics in Kenya
Briggs, Ryan C. - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 194-205
I analyze a unique dataset of sub-national resource allocations in Kenya from 1989 to 1995 and show that project aid … that bilateral donors and the African Development Bank were most likely to skew their aid to the president’s base. Kenya …
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Impact of Information and Communication Technology-Based Market Information Services on Smallholder Farm Input Use and Productivity: The Case of Kenya
Ogutu, Sylvester Ochieng; Okello, Julius Juma; Otieno, … - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 311-321
input use and productivity in Kenya. It finds a positive and significant impact of the intervention on the use of seeds …
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Emerging Private Education in Africa: Determinants of School Choice in Rural Kenya
Nishimura, Mikiko; Yamano, Takashi - In: World Development 43 (2013) C, pp. 266-275
Education (FPE) policy in 2003 in Kenya. With the help of panel data obtained from rural Kenya, we observed that the proportion …
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What Determines Gender Inequality in Household Food Security in Kenya? Application of Exogenous Switching Treatment Regression
Kassie, Menale; Ndiritu, Simon Wagura; Stage, Jesper - In: World Development 56 (2014) C, pp. 153-171
This paper explores the link between the gender of a household head and food security in rural Kenya. The results show …
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Does Information Lead to More Active Citizenship? Evidence from an Education Intervention in Rural Kenya
Lieberman, Evan S.; Posner, Daniel N.; Tsai, Lily L. - In: World Development 60 (2014) C, pp. 69-83
We study a randomized educational intervention in 550 households in 26 matched villages in two Kenyan districts. The intervention provided parents with information about their children’s performance on literacy and numeracy tests, and materials about how to become more involved in improving...
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Unpacking the Meaning of ‘Market Access’: Evidence from Rural Kenya
Chamberlin, Jordan; Jayne, T.S. - In: World Development 41 (2013) C, pp. 245-264
This paper critically examines the dimensions of market access. Using farm panel survey data from Kenya, we investigate …
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Poverty and Prime-Age Mortality in Eastern and Southern Africa: Evidence from Zambia and Kenya
Chapoto, Antony; Kirimi, Lilian; Kadiyala, Suneetha - In: World Development 40 (2012) 9, pp. 1839-1853
Using nationwide longitudinal household survey data from rural Kenya (1997–2004) and Zambia (2001–2004), we estimate … and 59. We compare these results with the rural sample of the Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) from Kenya and Zambia. Our …
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Urban Services and Child Migration to the Slums of Nairobi
Archambault, Caroline S.; de Laat, Joost; Zulu, Eliya … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 9, pp. 1854-1869
An estimated 30–70% of Nairobi’s population lives in informal settlements with very poor access to basic services, yet children are notably absent from the informal settlements. This paper combines qualitative research with three micro data sets and finds that the presence of urban basic...
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