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Staple Food Consumption Patterns in Urban Kenya: Trends and Policy Implications

Muyanga, Milu; Jayne, Thomas S.; Argwings-Kodhek, Gem; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2005

effects on urban poverty. Because Kenya is a member of COMESA and WTO, there will be external pressures to reduce these duties …

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Competitiveness of Kenyan and Ugandan Maize Production: Challenges for the Future

Nyoro, James K.; Kirimi, Lilian; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2004

The purpose of this study is to assess the costs of maize production in Kenya and Uganda, starting from the fact that … into seven region/technology categories, five in Kenya and two in eastern Uganda, in order to compare the relative …

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Feast and Famine: Financial Services for Rural Kenya

Argwings-Kodhek, Gem; Kwamboka, Mary; Karin, Francis - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2004

The paper gives a brief description of the history and main institutional forms in the agricultural and rural financial services sector–commercial banks, the micro-finance industry, savings and credit cooperative societies, village banks, building societies and the Agricultural Finance...

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Working-age Adult Mortality and Primary School Attendance in Rural Kenya

Yamano, Takashi; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2004

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School Choice between Public and Private Primary Schools under the Free

Nishimura, Mikiko; Yamano, Takashi - National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) - 2008

The elimination of school fees from public primary education under the Free Primary Education (FPE) Policy in Kenya in … schools. To obtain a better understanding of the school choice in Kenya, we estimate the school choice between public and … the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exam score at the school level, has a positive impact on the choice of private …

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Low Malnutrition but High Mortality: Explaining the Puzzle of the Lake Victoria Region

Gräb, Johannes; Priebe, Jan - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2010

malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya’s Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub …

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Price and Exchange Rate Dynamics in Kenya : An Empirical Investigation.

Ndung'U, N-S - African Economic Research Consortium - 1997

The paper investigates the relationships between domestic and foreign price levels and the exchange rate and other macro-variables. The real exchange rate is estimated as a cointegrating vector that spans the variables in a purchasing power parity relation. An exchange rate pass-through equation...

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Child Survival, Poverty and Policy Options from DHS Surveys in Kenya: 1993-2003

Kabubo-Mariara, Jane; Karienyeh, Margaret M.; Mwangi, … - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2008

This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child poverty in Kenya. We carry out poverty and inequality comparisons …

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Ethnic Diversity, Mobility and School Funding: Theory and Evidence From Kenya

Miguel, Ted - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1999

This paper explores the relationship between ethnic diversity and local school funding in Kenyan primary schools. The empirical results paint a picture of pervasive local collective action problems in ethnically diverse Kenyan primary schools. Local ethnic diversity is robustly associated with...

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The Maize Green Revolution in Kenya Revisited

Groote, Hugo De; Owuor, George; Doss, Cheryl; Ouma, James; … - In: The Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development … 2 (2005) 1, pp. 32-49

stalled since the mid-eighties in Kenya. This paper examines whether the stagnation of yields continued in the 1990s in spite … of the implementation of the maize liberalization policies by the Kenya Government. Analysis of farm level surveys from …

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