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    Agriculture, economic growth and poverty reduction

    Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2002
    Does agriculture have a role to play in economic growth and poverty reduction? This paper considers the role of agriculture in Kenya.
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    Dietary diversity as a food security indicator

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002
    Looks at whether dietary diversity, defined as the number of unique foods consumed over a given period of time, is a good measure of household food access.It draws on data from ten countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, and the Philippines.
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    Predicting household poverty: a methodological note with a Kenyan example

    Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2002
    Household surveys have two shortcomings, they require considerable expertise to conduct, and they involve large expenditures to collect and analyse.This paper develops a simple method for using poverty indices derived from survey data for a given year, to predict poverty rates for subsequent periods without having to conduct a new household survey using data from Kenyan household surveys for 1994
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    A situational analysis of poverty in Kenya

    Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2002
    According to the 1997 welfare monitoring survey, more than half of Kenya’s population was poor. Growth-led poverty-reduction approaches in Kenya have been criticised on the grounds that they ignore the non-income aspects of poverty.
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    Papers of FAO/SARPN Workshop on HIV/AIDS and Land, Pretoria

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002
    Series of country papers on HIV/AIDS and land in Lesotho, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, with concluding paper on methodological and conceptual issues. The key questions addressed include: The impact on and changes in land tenure systems (including patterns of ownership, access, and rights) as a consequence of HIV/AIDS with a focus on vulnerable groups.
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    Export horticulture and poverty in Kenya

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
    In sub-Saharan Africa, the promotion of export horticulture has often been proposed as a pro-poor development strategy due to its intensive use of land and unskilled labour. This paper reports the results of a household survey in Kenya undertaken explicitly to compare the incomes of households involved in export horticulture with those which are not.
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    Determinants of poverty in Kenya: a household level analysis

    Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2001
    This paper attempts to address weakness in the the Government of Kenya's poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP) of in-depth information for implementing and monitoring the strategy(PRSP).
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    The hidden battle: HIV/AIDS in the family and community

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath.
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    Pro-Poor conditionality for aid and debt relief in East Africa

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper considers how the conditionality inherent in HIPC debt relief should be constituted to promote pro-poor policies.The paper argues that:the elements of debt relief conditionality should be tailored to the features of the poverty-reduction policy environment in each country and provides guidelines for the design of conditionalitythe potential for implementing poverty reduct
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    Achieving sustainable universal primary education through debt relief: the case of Kenya

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This study critically reviews the education sector in Kenya and the challenges facing the sector in achieving universal primary schooling.The study argues that the introduction of cost sharing system in Kenya has resulted in high drop out and repetition rates, low transition and completion rates.

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