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Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries
Strobl, Eric; Thornton, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
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A Cautionary Note on the Use of Exchange Rate Indicators
Wickham, Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1993
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The Long-run Effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya
Bruhns, Ramona - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This essay analyzes the long-run economic effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya, with emphasis on fertility, education and child …
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Productivity Change in the Non-Agricultural Economy of Kenya, 1964-1987
Ritter, Arch - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 1989
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Determinants of Poverty in Kenya: A Household Level Analysis
Kimenyi, Mwangi Samson; Geda, Alemayehu; Jong, Niek de; … - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2005
Strategies aimed at poverty reduction need to identify factors that are strongly associated with poverty and that are amenable to modification by policy. This article uses household level data collected in 1994 to examine probable determinants of poverty status, employing both binomial and...
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System archetypes underlying the problematic behaviour of construction activity in Kenya
Mbiti, Titus Kivaa; Blismas, Nick; Wakefield, Ron; … - In: Construction Management and Economics 29 (2011) 1, pp. 3-13
Construction activity in Kenya fluctuates excessively and grows very slowly. This feature causes adverse effects on the … scrutiny of the problems themselves. In this paper, a system dynamics study of the construction industry of Kenya is presented … construction activity and foster continual growth of the activity in Kenya. …
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Smallholder Farmers and Collective Action: What Determines the Intensity of Participation?
Fischer, Elisabeth; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2011
participation intensity and free-riding, using the example of banana groups in Kenya. The results suggest that family labor …
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The supermarket revolution and impacts on agricultural labor markets: Empirical evidence from Kenya
Rao, Elizaphan J.O.; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2011
survey of vegetable farmers in Kenya, in this article a double-hurdle model of hired labor use is developed and estimated …
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Does the environment in which ICT-based market information services (MIS) projects operate affect their performance? Experiences from Kenya
Okello, Julius Juma; Ndirangu, Lydia K. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE; … - 2010
The need to provide agricultural information to farmers has led to emergence of numerous ICTbased MIS projects in developing country. These projects aim at promoting commercialization of smallholder agriculture and subsequently their welfare. This study examines the how the environment in which...
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PASTORALISTS NON‐RESPONSIVENESS TO LIVESTOCK MARKETS IN EAST POKOT, KENYA
Vincent, Ng’eno; Korir, M.K.; Nyangweso, P.M.; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE; … - 2010
One of the major challenges facing the state‐owned Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) in Kenya has been the inadequate supply …‐take rates for cattle and shoats in the pastoral areas of East Pokot District, Kenya. The multinomial logit model was used for … econometric analyses using both primary and secondary data obtained from different sources covering the pastoral areas of Kenya …
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