Egerton University with a mandate to undertake empirical research and analysis on contemporary economic and agricultural policy issues in Kenya. The institute is widely recognized as a centre of excellence in policy analysis on topical agricultural and food security issues of the day, and in its wide dissemination of findings to government and other key stakeholders with a view to influencing p...

The informal sector is generally believed to be vulnerable to various risks including health shocks due to limited access to social insurance. This paper examines the relationship between informality and protection from health risks in Yemen. The formal sector includes the pension covered wage employed and largely overlaps with public employment in Yemen, while the informal sector includes the ...

We examine the importance of what we term ‘Fisher dynamics’the mechanical effects of changes in interest rates, growth rates and inflation rates on debt levels independent of borrowing -for the evolution of household debt in the U.S. over a long time horizon (19292011). Adapting a standard decomposition of public debt to household sector debt, we show that these factors have been important in e...

Ministers noted the report and agreed to the thrust of its conclusions and recommendations. Introduction This report reviews the progress ECMT and OECD countries have made in reducing transport sector CO 2 emissions and makes recommendations for the focus of future policies. National communications under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and other recent policy statements were used ...

Global warming is likely one of the most serious and urgent issues facing the U.S. transportation sector. Major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector will be needed in order to stabilize the climate and avoid the most serious effects of global warming. Travel models can play an important role in evaluating potential policies for reducing transportation sector gre...

In this paper we address the question of farm-nonfarm linkages at the household level for a case-study in Senegal. We examine whether increasing off-farm employment opportunities for rural households – resulting from increased horticulture exports and associated agro-industrialization – has benefitted the smallholder farm sector through investment linkages. We use data from a household survey i...

The demand function for vaccines against typhoid fever was estimated using stated preference data collected from a random sample of 1065 households in Hue, Vietnam, in 2002. These are the first estimates of private willingness-to-pay (WTP) and demand functions for typhoid vaccines in a developing country. Mean respondent WTP for a single typhoid fever vaccine ranged from USD 2.30 to USD 4.80. M...

We estimate a dynamic general equilibrium model of the U.S. economy that includes an explicit household production sector and stochastic scal variables. We use our estimates to investigate two issues. First, we analyze how well the model accounts for aggregate uctuations. We nd that household production has a signi cant impact and reject a nested speci cation in which changes in the home produc...

I n recent years, the so-called Rebound effects that stem from energy efficiency gains have been of increasing interest in the economic literature. This effect happens when improvements in energy efficiency stimulate energy demand rather than decrease it. In the recent paper using Social Accounting Matrix data on the economy of Iran, the previous research has been extended on this field by...