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Profiling Tourists for Balanced Utilization of Tourism-Based Resources in Kenya

Odunga, Pius; Folmer, Henk - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

Kenya is predominantly a nature-based tourism destination with wildlife (concentrated in the southern part of the …

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Has Low Productivity Constrained Competitiveness of African Firms? : Comparison of the Firm Performances with Asian Firms

Fukunishi, Takahiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007

It has been argued that poor productive performance is one of critical sources of stagnation of the African manufacturing sector, but firm-level empirical supports are limited. Using the inter-regional firm data of the garment industry, technical efficiency and its contribution to...

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Human Capital Externalities and Private Returns to Education in Kenya

Manda, Damiano Kulundu; Mwabu, Germano; Kimenyi, Mwangi S. - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2004

We use micro data to analyse the effect of human capital externality on earnings and private returns to education. The earnings equations are estimated using the OLS method for a sample of full-time workers. The results show that human capital has a positive effect on earnings, indicating that...

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Challenges of sustaining growth in African aviation: the case of Jomo Kenyatta international airport

Irandu, Evaristus M.; Rhoades, Dawna L. - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 2 (2006) 4, pp. 362-374

regional liberalisation. This paper explores efforts at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya to meet these …

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Old-Age Poverty and Social Pensions in Kenya

Son, Hyun H.; Kakwani, Nanak - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2006

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Poverty, Old-Age and Social Pensions in Kenya

Kakwani, Nanak; Son, Hyun H.; Hinz, Richard - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2006

This study is concerned with old-age poverty in Kenya. It is also concerned with strengthening and developing social … Kenya from the viewpoint of providing policy-makers with information that may be useful in the reform and expansion of the …

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AIDS

Grinspun, Alejandro - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2005

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Scaling-up HIV/AIDS Financing and the Role of Macroeconomic Policies in Kenya

Hailu, Degol - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2007

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Economic valuation and policy priorities for sustainable management of coral reefs

Ahmed, M.; Chong, C.K.; Cesar, H. - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …

This publication is an outcome of the ôInternational Consultative Workshop for Economic Valuation and Policy Priorities for Sustainable Management of Coral Reefsö held at the WorldFish Center's Headquarters in Penang, Malaysia, 8-10 December 2001.The overall goal of the workshop was to...

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Trade Policy and Transport Costs in Kenya

Kiringai, Jane - Centre for Research in Economic Development and …

quality infrastructure in countries such as Kenya represent a barrier to trade and an additional source of protection to … domestic producers of import competing goods. This study reports results for Kenya on protection rates from tariffs and … transport costs. Although Kenya reduced tariffs during the 1990s, protection increased for agriculture, manufactured foods, wood …

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