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Resilience and Vulnerability

Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes in Rural Kenya: The report investigates the resources (land, livestock, and assets), attributes (household composition and education level), and activities (including jobs and engagement in non-farm activities) of households that enable them to escape poverty sustainably and minimise the likelihood of returning to living in poverty again.

Long Rains Assessment Report 2017

Politics

Kenya 2017 General And Presidential Election Results

Triggers and Characteristics of Kenyan Electoral Violence: This paper offers quantitative and qualitative evidence on the incidence, impacts and issues that triggered electoral violence.

Anomalies and Frauds(?) in the Kenya 2017Presidential Election:

Civic Education and Democratic Backsliding in the Wake of Kenya’s Post-2007 Election Violence: This article examines two unexplored questions concerning the impact of civic education programs in emerging democracies: (1) whether such programs have longer-terms effects and (2) whether civic education can be effective under conditions of democratic ‘‘backsliding.’’

Shocks and Related

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Bauer Jan, M. J. and S. Mburu (2017). "Effects of drought on child health in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya." Economics and Human Biology 24 : 74-79.

Beyer Linda, I., et al. (2016). "Kenya's focus on urban vulnerability and resilience in the midst of urban transitions in Nairobi." Development Southern Africa 33 (1): 3-22.

Chisholm, N. (2015). "Disaggregated Analysis: The Key to Understanding Wellbeing in Kenya in the Context of Food Price Volatility." IDS Bulletin 46 (6): 33-44.

Christiaensen, L. J. and K. Subbarao (2005). "Towards an understanding of household vulnerability in rural Kenya." JOURNAL OF AFRICAN ECONOMIES 14 (4): 520-558.

Damon Maria, M., et al. (2015). "Health Shocks and Natural Resource Management: Evidence from Western Kenya." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 69 : 36-52.

Dupas, P. and J. Robinson (2012). "The (hidden) costs of political instability: Evidence from Kenya's 2007 election crisis." Journal of Development Economics 99 (2): 314-329.

Gil-Alana Luis, A., et al. (2017). "Shocks affecting electricity prices in Kenya, a fractional integration study." Energy 124 : 521-530.

Ginnetti, J. and T. Franck (2014). "Assessing drought displacement risk for Kenyan, Ethiopian and Somali pastoralists." Technical paper, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

Green, E. P., et al. (2016). "Participatory mapping in low-resource settings: Three novel methods used to engage Kenyan youth and other community members in community-based HIV prevention research." Global public health 11 (5-6): 583-599.

Heltberg, R., et al. (2012). Living through crises: How the food, fuel, and financial shocks affect the poor, The World Bank.

Jensen Nathaniel, D., et al. (2018). "How basis risk and spatiotemporal adverse selection influence demand for index insurance: Evidence from northern Kenya." Food Policy 74 : 172-198.

Khadiagala, G. J. C. and c. m. i. A. P. c. w. t. i. design (2015). "Kenya: Gradual pluralization fails to buffer shocks." 51-70.

Lybbert Travis, J. and J. McPeak (2012). "Risk and intertemporal substitution: Livestock portfolios and off-take among Kenyan pastoralists." Journal of Development Economics 97 (2): 415-426.

Mathenge Mary, K. and D. L. Tschirley (2015). "Off-farm labor market decisions and agricultural shocks among rural households in Kenya." Agricultural Economics 46 (5): 603-616.

McPeak, J. (2004). "Contrasting income shocks with asset shocks: livestock sales in northern Kenya." Oxford Economic Papers 56 (2): 263-284.

Mosberg, M. and S. H. Eriksen (2015). "Responding to climate variability and change in dryland Kenya: The role of illicit coping strategies in the politics of adaptation." Global Environmental Change 35 : 545-557.

Muyanga, M., et al. (2013). "Pathways into and out of Poverty: A Study of Rural Household Wealth Dynamics in Kenya." Journal of Development Studies, The 49 (10): 1358-1374.

Nyikuri Mary, M. M., et al. ""We are toothless and hanging, but optimistic": sub county managers' experiences of rapid devolution in coastal Kenya." International Journal for Equity in Health 16 (1).

Okoba, B., et al. (2011). Climate Shocks, Perceptions and Coping Options in Semi-Arid Kenya. BERLIN,

Osano, P. M., et al. (2013). Why keep lions instead of livestock? Assessing wildlife tourism‐based payment for ecosystem services involving herders in the Maasai Mara, Kenya. Natural Resources Forum, Wiley Online Library.

Otuya, P. and D. J. A. M. J. o. R. Ochieng (2018). "Threats to Community Resilience for Floods Related Disasters in Kenya." 3 (1).

Radeny, M., et al. (2012). "Rural Poverty Dynamics in Kenya: Structural Declines and Stochastic Escapes." World development 40 (8): 1577-1593.

Robinson, J. and E. Yeh (2011). "Transactional Sex as a Response to Risk in Western Kenya." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3 (1): 35-64.

Romeo, A., et al. (2016). "Linking farm diversification to household diet diversification: evidence from a sample of Kenyan ultra-poor farmers." Food Security 8 (6): 1069-1085.

Theisen Ole, M. (2012). "Climate clashes? Weather variability, land pressure, and organized violence inKenya, 1989-2004." Journal of Peace Research 49 (1): 81-96.

Wineman, A., et al. (2017). "Weather extremes and household welfare in rural Kenya." Food Security 9 (2): 281-300.