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Searching with a thematic focus on Poverty in Kenya

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  Should home ownership be encouraged?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Most governments encourage their citizens to buy their own homes, yet the numbers of households renting and sharing accommodation is rising in many cities. Few governments, however, have been encouraging landlords to create more and better quality accommodation for rent.
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  Can local governments generate enough revenue to deliver services?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Lack of finance greatly constrains municipalities’ ability to deliver services to poor people. Public finance literature has paid little attention to the potential for redistribution at local government level.
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  Differences in diversification for Maasai pastoralists

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Increasing pressure on land from conservation, agriculture and tourism is pushing Maasai pastoralists to the margins of land. This is forcing many away from traditional livelihood activities. Once they lose their foothold in pastoralism, opportunities to re-enter are rare and alternative livelihoods are hard to access, especially for poorer pastoralists.
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  School meals, educational achievement and school competition: evidence from a randomized evaluation

  World Bank Research, 2004

  This paper examines the effects of subsidised school meals on preschool participation, educational achievement, and school finance in Kenya.Findings from the study include:the meals programme led to higher curriculum test scores, but only in schools where the teacher was relatively experienced prior to the programmethe school meals displaced teaching time and led to larger class siz
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  Increasing women’s role in food security in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Women play a key role in securing food throughout Africa, yet local customs and legal institutions often discriminate against women, denying them access to land, resources, education and public services. Healthcare is also an issue, particularly HIV/AIDS. Women have to care for themselves and for sick relatives, leaving less time to find or produce food.
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  Could fuel substitution hurt the poor?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Over two billion people in developing countries rely on biomass fuels to meet their household energy needs. It is increasingly recognised that cooking with firewood, charcoal, crop residues and animal dung is bad for the health and the environment.
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  Population and health dynamics in Nairobi’s informal settlements

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2002

  This report documents demographic characteristics of health conditions of the slum residents of Nairobi City, Kenya, based on a representative sample survey of informal settlement residents carried out during February–June 2000.
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  Migration and pro-poor policy in East Africa

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004

  This paper reports on the findings of a survey conducted on migration and pro-poor policy in East Africa. It identifies the importance of migration to the poor, discusses migration policies, key issues and policy gaps in each country, as well as the region as a whole.
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  Meeting greenhouse gas targets and supporting development: a win-win situation?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  In 1997, as part of the Kyoto Protocol, industrialised countries agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. One method for achieving their targets is to invest in projects that reduce GHG emissions in other countries.
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  Poverty dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper is a micro-level attempt to empirically test hypotheses of economic growth by examining risk management, marginal returns on productive assets, and asset dynamics across settings distinguished by different agroecological and market access conditions, in Kenya and Madagascar.The author claims that macroeconomic growth theories are characterized by three different hypotheses, which hav

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