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  1. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Zimbabwe

    Between 1970 and 1992, the World Bank
    assisted financially in about 15 wildlife-related projects
    in Sub-Saharan Africa. The lending volume was US$ 368
    million or about 1percent of the Bank's totals lending
    during the same period. While geographically, these projects
    have been concentrated in East Africa, especially Kenya, the
    others are located in Somali, Malawi, Botswana, Cote
    d'Ivoire, Zimbabwe, Ghana, the Central African

  2. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Kenya

    This report examines the legal,
    administrative, and regulatory barriers that are preventing
    women in Kenya from contributing fully to the Kenyan
    economy. Building on the 2004 Foreign Investment and
    Advisory Service (FIAS) report, "Improving the
    Commercial Legal Framework and Removing Administrative and
    Regulatory Barriers to Investment," this study looks at
    the bureaucratic barriers facing women in Kenya through a

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Kenya, Nicaragua

    Poor urban populations in Southern
    cities are already experiencing the negative impacts of
    changing weather patterns associated with climate change and
    climate variability and future projections suggest that
    these impacts will get worse. Severe weather patterns,
    experienced as prolonged droughts, intense rainfall or wind
    speed cause substantial damage to the assets and well-being
    of city-dwellers, causing localized flooding, housing

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Kenya

    This assessment of poverty and
    inequality comes at an important juncture for Kenya. The
    December 2007 elections and subsequent pronouncements of the
    newly formed Grand Coalition have underlined the salience of
    these issues to ordinary Kenyans, and for policy makers. The
    violence in early 2008 highlighted the importance of
    addressing poverty and inequality as major goals in their
    own right, but also for instrumental reasons, as major goals

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Africa, Kenya

    As the world begins to feel the effects
    of climate change, the frequency of droughts is increasing
    in the Horn of Africa. In Kenya, the drought and food crisis
    affect welfare through two main channels. The first channel
    is the increased mortality of livestock in drought-affected
    areas, which are home to 10 percent of the country's
    population. The second channel is by exacerbating increases
    in food prices, which are largely driven by worldwide price

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