Browsing Discussion Papers by Subject "Poverty reduction"

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    • Discussion Paper No. 09 of 2001 on Determinants of Poverty in Kenya: Household-Level Analysis 

      Geda, Alemayehu ; Jong, Niek & Mwabu, Germano (The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2001)
      Strategies aimed at reducing poverty need to identify factors that are strongly associated with poverty and that are amenable to modification by policy. This paper uses household-level data collected in 1994 to examine ...

    • Discussion Paper No. 33 of 2004 on Poverty and Employment in Kenya 

      Oiro, Miriam W.; Mwabu, Germano & Manda, Damiano K. (The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2004)
      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 ...