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    An employment-targeted economic program for Kenya

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    The government of Kenya has committed itself to generating half a million new jobs per year at least through 2007. This book argues that low unemployment alone will not solve the problem of very high poverty levels. In this full-length study, authors explore various means to create high-quality employment in Kenya, including:
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    Addressing the employment-poverty nexus in Kenya: comparing cash-transfer and job-creation programmes

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    What is the link between employment and poverty reduction in Kenya? This paper examines unemployment, underemployment, employment and labour earnings, and the relationship of all these with poverty. Based on an analysis of a Labour Force Survey, the author finds that:
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    The decline in public spending to agriculture: does it matter?

    Oxford Policy Management, 2007
    Public spending on agriculture is now recognised to be an important means of promoting economic growth and alleviating poverty in rural areas. However, this paper reveals that agricultural spending is not being prioritised within current budgets and, in many cases, is actually falling.
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    Expanding decent employment in Kenya: the role of monetary policy, inflation control, and the exchange rate

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This paper examines the current Kenyan monetary regime and evaluates the extent to which it is able to promote sustainable economic development that significantly expands decent employment opportunities.
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    Why are there so few black-owned firms in Africa? preliminary results from enterprise survey data

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
    Much of the growth in Sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade has come from extractive industries, rather than from private, entrepreneurial activity.
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    Nine African budget transparency and participation case studies

    Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005
    The findings from this study explore budget transparency from the ordinary citizen's perspective. It sheds some light on information required to engage meaningfully with budgetary and other decisions involving public resources from the ordinary citizen's perspective.
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    Fiscal policy and growth in Africa: fiscal federalism, decentralization and the incidence of taxation

    UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003
    The paper investigates the tax reforms undertaken in a sample of randomly selected five African countries, taken together, namely Egypt, Senegal, Gabon, Kenya and Zambia. Reflecting the government's greatly expanding role in the economy, total public sector expenditure increased rapidly over the last two decades. However, public sector revenue growth has not matched public expenditure growth.
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    Civil society budget monitoring for national accountability

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004
    This report is based on a three day budget tracking workshop held in Malawi in February 2004 which brought together individuals and representatives of organisations involved in budget monitoring, or developing monitoring processes and tools, with a view to developing a supportive community of practice.Issues highlighted in this report include:budget making is where the real prioritisat
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    The economics of gender inequality: towards gender responsive budgeting

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Are budgets and revenue systems as gender neutral as they may appear to be? Can gender be incorporated into economic governance? How can women and civil society organisations be more involved in preparing budgets, scrutinising expenditure and collecting and analysing macroeconomic data that is disaggregated by sex?
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    Gender equality in sector wide approaches: a reference guide

    OECD Development Centre, 2002
    This guide presents a series of case studies examining the experience of sector wide programs in education, health and agriculture.It offers advice on how to ensure that a sector wide approach:contributes to overall sustainability and effectivenessis fully responsive to the needs and interests of both women and men and helps to promote gender equalityThe case studies identif

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