Adoption of technologies that increase farm yields is a prerequisite for poverty alleviation in agrarian societies. However, the link between adoption of improved varieties and poverty reduction is not well understood or ...

Poverty in Kenya is caused by a number of factors, which include low agricultural productivity and poor marketing of industrial and agricultural products, insecurity, unemployment and low wages, poor governance, misallocation ...

The paper examines the relationship between health status and economic growth in Africa over the period 1960-2000. Between 1960 and 1970s, health status in many African countries expanded rapidly, slowed down in the ...

This paper uses data from Kenya to examine the role of user charges and quality of health services in determining the choice of healthcare providers. We find that an increase in the price of public health services diverts ...

At the time of independence in 1963, the Government of Kenya identified illiteracy, disease, ignorance and poverty as the main problems to be addressed in the post-independence era. In spite of the antipoverty measures ...

This study has used micro data to analyse the effect of human capital externality on earnings and returns to education. The parameters of the earnings function are estimated using the ordinary least squares method. The ...

Identifying and measuring poverty require data on economic conditions of households and individuals. Such data are typically gathered through household surveys. Household surveys collect data on demographics, incomes, ...