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  Debt relief and health care in Kenya

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  The paper proposes investment of possible debt relief proceeds in general preventive health care, human development, health equipment, medical supplies, health infrastructure and in programmes for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS-related diseases.Conclusions: Kenya deals with external debt together with regular servicing at the expense of such vital life programmes as health care,
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  Gambling with goats: variability in herd growth among restocked pastoralists in Kenya

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1989

  The growth of individual, north Kenyan, pastoralist families' herds of smallstock, given to them in restocking schemes, is followed over several years. Very poor families given similar herds at the start of the project showed great variation in herd sizes by the end of the period analysed.
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  Aid and Reform in Africa

  Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1999

  Since the early 1980s, virtually every African country has received large amounts of aid aimed at stimulating policy reform. The results have varied enormously. Ghana and Uganda were successful reformers that grew rapidly and reduced poverty. In other countries policies changed little or even got worse.
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  Kenya: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy 2000 - 2003

  Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2000

  The strategy states that the primary development goal for Kenya is to achieve a broad-based, sustainable improvement in the standards of welfare of all Kenyans. The paper stresses the role not only of Government but of the the private sector, non-governmental and community based organisations in meeting the challenge of poverty reduction.
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  Aid and reform in Africa: lessons from ten case studies

  World Bank, 2001

  This article explores comparatively, the effect and effectiveness of aid in different African countries (10 case studies).More specifically the article investigates the following questions:are there common characteristics of successful and failed reformers that enable us to understand better the political economy of reform?do donors tailor their assistance to different types of coun
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  Financing corruption and repression: the case of Kenya and the IFIs

  Jubilee Research, 2001

  This article attempts to show that in Kenya the IMF’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP) is less a strategy for poverty reduction and civil society participation; more a strategy for providing security and guarantees for foreign investorsThe article indicates that:far from challenging the rule of Daniel Arap Moi, international creditors, through the IMF and World Bank, have helped to pr
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  The response of income diversification to macro and micro policy shocks in Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000

  This paper presents evidence on the effects of two different sorts of policy shocks on observed income diversification patterns in rural Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya.Research results:In Côte d'Ivoire, massive currency devaluation reduced farmer income diversification by inducing a reallocation of effort toward the production of tradable agricultural commodities.
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  First quarter analysis of the 1999/2000 budget

  Institute of Economic Affairs, Kenya, 2000

  Analysis of first quarter allocation and expenditure trends in seven ministries - all considered critical to poverty eradication.
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  Improving policy analysis and management for poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa: creating an effective learning community

  Eldis Document Store, 2000

  Significant poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa cannot be achieved without strong policy analysis and management capacity both in the public sector and civil society at large.
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  Potential uses of food aid to support HIV/AIDS mitigation activities in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2000

  This article looks at ways of using food aid as an intervention to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS.

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