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Impact of the Provision of Humanitarian Aid Transit Corridors on National Security: the Case of Kenya, 1989-2005
(2012-11)
Discourses on humanitarian aid offered to mitigate the effects of man-made disasters have often been compartmentalised within two perspectives: those that support the rationale for such aid and those critical of the impact ...
Adoption of Benchmarking by Kenyan and South African Electricity Sectors and Its Impact on Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises (Smmes)
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
The current study aimed at establishing the impact of the adoption of benchmarking strategy in the Kenyan and South African electricity sectors, first on KPLC and Eskom and second, on the Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises ...
An Appraisal of Police Reform Under the New Legal Framework in Kenya: Towards an Effective Policing Policy
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
Police reform is a key area in security sector reform that needs to be keenly addressed. Since reforms
began in the police services in Kenya, little efforts have been made to appraise the reform process. This
research ...
An Application of Porter’s Theory of the Competitive Advantage of Nations in Determination of the Competitiveness of the Kenyan Tea Export Industry
(2012-10)
The Tea export industry plays a very crucial role in the Kenyan economy as tea is one of the
main foreign exchange earners. In fact Tea has overtaken tourism to become the country's
number one foreign exchange earner. ...
Determinants of Kenyan`s Textile Exports to the Usa Under the African Growth and Opportunities Act (Agoa)
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
Whereas African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) provides a long list of goods that can be exported to the United States of America (USA), Kenya has not been able to take advantage of the huge market to export textile and ...
Location Decisions Among Commercial Banks in Kenya
(2012)
Much of the previous research into the factors that influences the choice of location among
commercial banks mechanism has concentrated generally on developed countries. Not much
known local study has focused on the ...
What Informs the Choice of Adoption of Children Among Prospective Adoptive Parents in Nairobi?
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2012)
The study 'What informs the choice of adoption among prospective adoptive parents in Nairobi?' sought to find out the socio-cultural, economic and other factors that induence prospective adoptive parents' decision to adopt ...
An Assessment of Alternative Models of Interest Rate Volatility in the Bond Market in Kenya
(2012)
This research project focuses on estimating volatility in interest rates in the bond market
in Kenya. It assesses the linear and non linear models of estimating volatility. Data comprising
of redemption yields for all ...
Awareness of and Perceptions Towards Crop Biotechnology: Case Study of Members of the Seed Trade Association of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
This chapter provides a brief background regarding the awareness of and perceptions towards crop biotechnology. The chapter also briefly discusses the application of crop biotechnology and the debate about that application. ...
The Assessment of Risk - Return Trade Off Among Private Equity Firms in Kenya
(University of Nairobi,, 2012-10)
The purpose of this study was to assess the risk and return trade off among private equity
firms in Kenya. The study sought information from the AVCA data bank and various
sources like publications journals , business ...