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Supermarkets, farm household income, and poverty: Insights from Kenya

Rao, Elizaphan J.O.; Qaim, Matin - 2010

Kenya. Participation in supermarket channels is associated with a 50% gain in average household income, leading to …

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Mobile money, market transactions, and household income in rural Kenya

Kikulwe, Enoch M.; Fischer, Elisabeth; Qaim, Matin - 2013

using panel data from smallholder farmers in Kenya. Mobile money use has a large positive net impact on household income …

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Agriculture-nutrition linkages in farmers' communication networks

Jäckering, Lisa; Gödecke, Theda; Wollni, Meike - 2018

uses unique network data from 815 farm households in Kenya to investigate the structure and characteristics of agricultural …

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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa

van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986

that fertility has increased in some countries--Kenya and Cameroon; has remained almost stable in Benin, Ivory Coast and …, the estimates posit a decline in both infant and child mortality in Kenya, Benin and Ivory Coast; infant mortality in …

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The effect of credit on growth and convergence of firms in Kenyan manufacturing

Nkurunziza, Janvier Désiré - 2005

macroeconomic shocks such as increases in interest rates make firm debts unsustainable as experienced in Kenya in the 1990s …

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Survival and success among African manufacturing firms

Harding, Alan; Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - 2004

panel data set of firms in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania that spans a period of five years. We find that the main determinant of …

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Interpersonal, intertemporal and spatial variation in risk perceptions: evidence from East Africa

Doss, Cheryl; McPeak, John; Barrett, Christopher - 2006

This study investigates variation over time, space and household and individual characteristics in how people perceive different risks. Using original data from the arid and semi-arid lands of east Africa, we explore which risks concern individuals and how they assess their relative level of...

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