-protection mechanisms and in particular threatens the country’s ability to achieve education development targets. Using the 2002/03 Uganda …

investigated the impacts of orphan status into adulthood. Therefore, this paper examines the education attainment and land … inheritance of former orphans, who have lost at least one parent before reaching 15, by using a survey of 889 households in Kenya … such a loss, and identified former orphans. Among individuals who started schooling before the Free Education Program …

microfinance on household incomes. We use a pooled data set collected from the south western part of Makueni district in Kenya to …

Statistics (UBoS), the paper examines gender biases in school attainment, returns to education, expenditure on health and … education, access to health services. While Uganda has recorded progress on MDG 3: promote gender equality and empower women … free education both at primary and secondary level; and abolition of user fees in public health facilities is not …

human beings e.g. in their education and health. But for a considerable period in the past economists stressed the … capital. Nevertheless, in the second half of the 20th century the importance of human resource capital (particularly education …

rural Kenya using a panel of 1,266 households surveyed in 1997, 2000, and 2002. We find a strong correlation between working … adult death. The evidence indicates that rising adult mortality in rural Kenya is adversely affecting primary school …

This paper explores the key factors that cause changes in the economic wellbeing of rural households in Kenya. We … specifically determine the relationship between the initial economic position of households and education on income growth and … evidence of (low) income persistence for the poor and those in the low agricultural potential areas that lack higher education …