Browsing Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Law, Business Mgt (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM) by Subject "Poverty"

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    • Coping with poverty : A study of peasant households in Kithimu Location,Embu District 

      Nyaga, Robert Kivuti (School of Economics, 2001-08)
      This paper studies the poverty status of people in Kithimu location, Embu District and the coping activities that the poor resort to. The study used primary data collected through administration of questionnaires to the ...

    • Does corruption affect poverty? 

      Kamiti, Boniface N (Department of Economics, University of Nairobi, 2004-09)
      Corruption is increasingly viewed as a major impediment to sustained economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its importance is reflected in conditionalities for development assistance being proposed by members of the ...

    • Status of poverty in rural Kenya:A case study of Nyeri district 

      Wambugu, Naftali N (Department of Economics, University of Nairobi, 2002-09)
      The paper assesses empirically the status of poverty in Nyeri district. We use data derived from the third welfare monitoring survey carried out by the Central Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Finance and Planning. A ...