that fertility has increased in some countries--Kenya and Cameroon; has remained almost stable in Benin, Ivory Coast and … Lesotho; and has slightly declined in Ghana. The underlying factors with regard to the apparent increase hinge on the …, the estimates posit a decline in both infant and child mortality in Kenya, Benin and Ivory Coast; infant mortality in …

in two districts in Kenya between May 2005 and September 2005. Multinomial logit models and ordered probit models were …, Household Model, Multinomial Logistic Regression, Ordered Logistic Regression, Kenya. …

the usefulness of frailty models in exploring the childhood mortality-fertility relationships using DHS data from Ghana … and Kenya. Invariably, women with prior infant deaths were found to have more subsequent births than those without … multivariate results demonstrated that models without unobserved heterogeneity tended to produce biased estimates. Comparing Ghana …

instance, affect the risk of a higher order birth? These questions are examined using DHS data from Ghana and Kenya. At each …

electrical energy and peak demand in India and Brazil. Using very conservative assumptions, we find that the cost of conserved … of avoided peak installed capacity is 6 and 9.5 times less than the cost of new installed capacity for India and Brazil … national savings of the order of US $1.2 million per day for India and US $2.5 million per day for Brazil are reached in 10 …

The retail and distribution industry in Botswana's deregulated economy is one of the largest and most difficult sectors … in which to operate, mainly because of levels of competition amongst Botswana companies and the global competitive …