Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Mainstreaming Non-Motorised Transport (NMT) in police and planning in Nairobi: iInstitutional issues and challenges
(2012-07)Non Motorized Transport (NMT) is a dominant mode of transport in African cities, and there are a number of institutional issues and challenges that confront African governments in mainstreaming the mode into the overall ... -
Application of operational Research in Public Project Management
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Street trade in Kenya the contribution of research in policy dialogue and response
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2003)This paper shares an experience of street traders engagement in poli cy dialogue that arose out of a collaborative research process that began in 1999 1 . The research involved gathering information and processing it ... -
Taxation without Principles: A Historical Analysis of the Kenyan Taxation System
(University of NairobiDepartment Of Commercial Law, 2007)Tax law is said to be barely connected with the universe and with universal law as we understand it. However, tax law is founded not only on principles but also on practicality. There is no element of perpetuity about ... -
Street Vending In African Cities: A Synthesis Of Empirical Finding From Kenya, Cote D'ivoire, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Uganda And South Africa
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2003)This report is a synthesis of six case studies on street vendi ng in Africa. The case studies re drawn from Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Gh ana, Cote D'Ivoire and South Africa. The synthesis of the case studies arose ... -
Criminal Liability of Company Directors in Malaysia and Singapore. A paper presented at a Conference on the Role and Duties of Directors in Malaysia organized by Kejora Management Services Sdn. Bhd. In collaboration with School of Law, Mara Institute of Technology, Malaysia, Desaru Holiday Resort, Johor, Malaysia, October 27-28, 1986
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Kenyan Exports of Nile Perch: The Impact of Food Safety Standards on an Export-Oriented Supply Chain
(Institute for Development studies University of Nairobi, 2004)Over the past decade, exports of fish and fisher y products from developing countries have increased rapidly. However, one of the major challenges fa cing developing countries in seeking to maintain and expand their share ... -
Doctrine of Restraint of Trade and Restrictive Trade Practices. A paper presented at a Staff Seminar, Mara Institute of Technology, Malaysia, October 9, 1986
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Criminal Liability of Corporations in Malaysia and Singapore: Problems and Perspectives, A paper presented at the Malacca Law Seminar organized by the Mara Institute Law Society in Association with School of Law Mara Institute and the State Government of Malacca, Malaysia, March 9-10, 1985
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Panel Discussant, at the Seminar organized by the School of Accountancy and Advanced Diploma in Accountancy Society, Mara Institute of Technology, Malaysia, on Investment Climate in Malaysia in the Second Half of Eighties, Kuala Lumpur, and February 26-27, 1985
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Criminal Liability of Corporations in Malaysia. A paper presented at the 7th Lawasia Conference, Bangkok, August 8-12, 1981.
(School of Law, University of Nairobi, 1981) -
Economic Crimes, Report prepared for the Task Force on the Review of the Penal Laws and Procedure in Kenya, for consideration and approval in Kenya (1995) (mimeo)
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Comparing Maternal Health Indicators between Teenagers and Older Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from DHS
(Population Studies and Research Institute, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2012)Most literature supports the notion that teenage childbearing is generally associated with higher risk of adverse maternal and newborn health outcomes. There is however continued debate on whether this association is ... -
Family Background, Education and Earnings in Kenya
(GUPEADepartment of Economics, University of Nairobi,, 2002)This paper uses data collected in 2000 to first estimate OLS and ordered probit models to measure correlation between family background and workers' education. Then, human capital earnings functions are estimated to examine ... -
Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons in Kenya: Analysis of Maternal and Child Well - being
(School of Economics, University of Nairobi, 2010)This paper utilizes Demographic and Health Survey data to generate multidimensional poverty profiles for women and children in Kenya during the period 1993 to 2003.We measure wellbeing in two dimensions: assets and health ... -
Real Wages and Returns to Human Capital in Kenya Manufacturing firms
(GUPEA, 2002)This paper studies how real wages and wage returns to human capital in Kenya manufacturing firms changed, using cross-section data sets from a survey conducted in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 2000. A quantile regression technique ... -
Education of children with specific learning difficulties
(Nairobi: KISEDepartment of Psychology, University of Nairobi, 2002)One category of learners that perplexes educationists and the parents alike, and one whose needs the education system in Kenya still does not address adequately is specific learning difficulties also known as learning ... -
Overview of learning disabilities
(Department of Psychology, University of Nairobi, 2007)Terms and concepts abound in the field of special needs education to the extent that one condition may be known by different names and have different definitions depending on the orientation of the user/writer. Such a ... -
Does firm size really affect earnings?
(2002)In this paper we investigate the implications of labour and capital market imperfections for the relationship between firm size and earnings. To establish that such a question is of inte rest we need to show that the ...