School of Economics: Recent submissions
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Kenya's Trade in Services: should the Country Fully Liberalize?: services in the International Economy
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Industrialisation in Kenya
(Nairobi: HeinemannSchool of Economics, University of Nairobi, 1988) -
Financing of recurrent expenditure in Kenya's health sector
(School of Economics, University of Nairobi, 1988) -
A review of Kenya's public sector
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The economic impact of malaria on wage earnings in Kenya: a household level investigation
(Department of Economics, University of Nairobi,, 2013)Malaria remains one of t he most severe diseases facing Sub - Saharan African. The global incidence of the disease is estimated at 350 to 500 million clinical cases annually, resulting in 1. 5 to 2.7 million deaths ... -
Role of R enewable ene R gy in p R omoting inclusive and sustainable development in Kenya
(Department of economics, university of Nairobi, 2012)This paper looks at the role of renewable energy in Kenya toward promoting inclusive and sustainable development -
Are Formal And Informal Small Firms Really Different?
(Department of economics, university of Nairobi, 2000)Although informal establishments dominate the small firm-segment in Kenyan manufacturing, there are also formal companies with distinct characteristics. Informal firms are younger, less capital-intensive, almost never ... -
Revealed Comparative Advantage and Export Propensity in Kenya
(Department of economics, university of Nairobi, 1999)This discussion paper is released under IPAR’s research and policy activities in the Private Sector Development programme. Discussion papers disseminate results and reflections from on-going research activities of the ... -
Micro-level Institutions & Enterprise Productivity: Insights From Kenya's Small Business Sector
(School of Economics, University of Nairobi, 2001)This paper explores the impact of micro-level institutions on enterprise performance by applying descriptive and econometric analysis on data extracted from a baseline survey of micro and small-scale enterprises in Kenya. ... -
Informality, Ethnicity And Productivity: Evidence From Small Manufacturers In Kenya
(School of Economics, 2000)A rapidly increasing share of firms in Kenya consists of not only small but also informal establishments. This paper investigates the role of ethnicity and other factors in the choice of formality status at start-up. ... -
Large-scale irrigation development in Kenya: past performance and future prospects
(1988)This paper examines policy issues relating to large-scale public irrigation schemes (the National Irrigation Board (NIB) schemes and the Bura scheme) in Kenya. First, it considers the need for intensified agricultural ... -
Willingness to pay for extension services in Uganda among farmers involved in crop and animal husbandry
(2010)Although the Ugandan government is determined to aid farmers increase agricultural productivity as an intervention on increasi ng food security and reducing poverty through extension services, resources cons traints ... -
REVIEWING UGANDA’S TOURISM SECTOR FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL UPGRADING
(2012-06)In tourism the use of sector’s employment opportunities and contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of its performance may be deceptive as the sector is prone to foreigners domination and has a lot of ... -
Biotechnology and farm size in Kenya
(1989)Examines the extent to which food supply, incomes, employment and exports have been boosted through the use of biotechnology applications on small farms. -
Management for Development: Priority Themes in Africa Today
(1988)This book consists of papers from a symposium of the Kenya Chapter of the Society for International Development, Nairobi in 1985, highlighting the importance of proper economic management in the development of Africa. The ... -
Assessing Sustainability Of Faith-based Enterprises In Kenya
(Emerald Group Publishing LimitedSchool of Economics, 2006)Purpose – This paper is concerned with sustainable development (supporting profit-making enterprises as alternatives to providing relief efforts in developing countries) of faith-based enterprises in Kenya focusing on the ... -
Total factor productivity in Kenya: The links with trade policy
(University of NairobiDepartment of Economics, 2002)As an objective of development policy, productivity growth has been difficult to achieve in many countries. For this reason, studies on sources of growth are a field of great importance to policy makers. Recent experience, ... -
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 ...