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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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  Cities on the brink: urban poverty in the 21st century

  CARE International, 2006

  In 2007 the world will tip from being predominantly rural to predominantly urban.
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  Local financing mechanisms for water supply in Kenya

  Water and Environmental Health at London and Loughborough, 2006

  Access to financial resources to develop water supply services in Kenya is limited. Only a few international development agencies are familiar with innovative financing mechanisms.
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  Humanitarian action in urban contexts

  Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2006

  This edition of Humanitarian Exchange includes various articles by different authors discussing humanitarian action in urban contexts and a range of general policy and practice articles.The contributors explore issues relating to natural disasters in urban contexts, with articles on responding to Tropical Storm Jean in Haiti, the relationship between climate change and disaster risk in urban en
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  Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa: introduction to a special issue

  Journal of Development Studies, 2006

  This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies that explores persistent poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. As a set, these papers aim to break new ground in exploring the dynamics of structural poverty. The articles integrate qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis using longitudinal data and country case studies.
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  Kenyan national conference on equity and growth: conference report

  Society for International Development, 2006

  Often considered a highly unequal country, disparities in Kenya have manifested themselves along income, regional and gender lines. Most importantly, inequalities in opportunity, rights and political power underpin the disparities found throughout mainstream society.This report is the outcome of the National Conference on Equity and Growth in Kenya, held in Nairobi in May 2006.
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  Education access and retention for educationally marginalised children: innovations in social protection

  Mobile Task Team on the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education, 2005

  This report looks at the effectiveness of social protection programmes for educationally marginalised children (EMC) in Eastern and Southern Africa.
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  Can low income countries afford basic social protection?: first results of a modelling exercise

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This report presents the methodology and the results of a modelling exercise that demonstrates that basic social protection benefits are not out of reach for low-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, even though some international assistance would be necessary for a transitory period.
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  Is cash the best way to assist poor and vulnerable people?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In the face of chronic poverty, food insecurity and increasing HIV and AIDS in eastern and southern Africa, there is growing recognition of the importance of cash transfers for reaching vulnerable children and households. A variety of cash transfer schemes are being piloted. Should they be scaled-up?
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  id21 classic: Redistribution with growth

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  'Redistribution with growth' explores ways in which macroeconomic growth can be combined over time with measures of redistribution to improve employment, reduce poverty and achieve more equitable income distribution.

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