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Aid unpredictability and Economic Growth in Kenya
(African Development Bank Group, 2015)Studies on the impacts of aid on growth are not limited. Some have found positive effects, others negative effects, others no effect and others have found positive impacts only under certain conditions. A less examined ... -
Analysis of Budget Imbalance Dynamics in Kenya
(Journal of Economics and Public Finance, 2018-11-24)Kenya needs substantial and sustained fiscal consolidation to create fiscal space for financing the government’s election pledges, the Vision 2030 development projects, and sustainable development goals. However, the ... -
Analysis of Devolved Social Safety Funds on Household Welfare in Kenya
(IPRJB, 2023)Purpose: Social safety funds should effectively and efficiently reach needy households, providing a safety net that enhances their welfare and reduces poverty levels in the community. The Kenya National Safety Net ... -
Analysis of income tax system productivity in Kenya
(Amity Directorate of Management & Allied Areas (ADMAA), 2016)The Government of Kenya has over the years undertaken reforms in the income tax system with a view of making it elastic. Despite these efforts, studies have shown that the structure is still inelastic. However, these studies ... -
Analysis of Mobile Financial Services Utilization among Small Scale Businesses in Kiambu County, Kenya
(Archives of Business Review, 2020-11-25)This study examined the level of utilization of Mobile financial services among small scale businesses in Kiambu County. Primary data was obtained through interview administered questionnaire from ... -
Analysis of Price Volatility and Implications for Price Stabilization Policies in Mozambique
(International Knowledge Sharing Platform, 2014)High food price instability is one of the major risks facing agricultural households from developing countries. Resulting from agronomic factors as well as the historically low levels of world grain stocks and climate ... -
The Analysis of Profitability of Kenya`s Top Six Commercial Banks: Internal Factor Analysis
(2014)The financial sector plays an important role in the development of the country. For sustainable economic growth, a country must have a strong banking sector. The Kenyan banking sector has experienced several challenges ... -
An Analysis of the Factors Affecting Employee Relations in the Flower Industry in Kenya, a Case of Waridi Ltd, Athi River
(Center for Promoting Ideas, USA, 2014-10)Despite impressive performance and contribution to national economy, the flower industry in Kenya is still faced with decent work deficits. These could be manifested in the terms and conditions of employment leading ... -
Analysis of Value Added Tax Productivity in Kenya
(Journal of Economics and Public Finance, 2020-09-28)One of the critical components of Sustainable Development Goals is to strengthen domestic resource mobilization. The target is to have domestic resources contributing at least 75 percent to 90 percent of the financing ... -
Antecedents of Talent Retention and Organization Performance of Nairobi City County Government, Kenya
(strategic Journals, 2022)This study established the effect of talent retention on organizational performance of Nairobi City County Government. The study was majorly anchored on the resource-based view theory that holds that organizational performance ... -
Assessing the Stability of Money Multipliers: Evidence from Kenya
(IOSR Journal of Economics and Finance (IOSR-JEF), 2018-07-02)This paper investigated the stability of money multiplier using Kenyan data for the period 1983- 2015.This paper used Maki(2012) tests for cointegration allowing for unknown number of structural breaks and the Dynamic ... -
Bank competition in Kenya
(Springer Nature, 2018-05)Abstract This study investigates the level of competition among commercial banks in Kenya over the period 2001 to 2014. The study used a balanced panel data set from 36 commercial banks, the performance dynamics approach ... -
Bank Competitive Landscape and Competition in the Banking Sector in Kenya
(African Review of Economics and Finance, 2019)This study investigates the evolution of competition among commercial banks in Kenya with changes in the bank competitive landscape. Employing system GMM and the performance dynamics approach, the study establishes ... -
Causes of congestion in the justice system. Does macroeconomic environment matter?
(International Knowledge Sharing Platform, 2018)Public services rendered by the justice system institutions are susceptible to congestion which arise from partial rivalry in consumption of these services. This paper investigated the causes of congestion in Kenyan justice ... -
Community-Based Conservation, Income Governance, and Poverty Alleviation in Tanzania: The Case of Serengeti Ecosystem
(SAGE, 2013)Protected areas occupy about 27% of Tanzania’s land of 945,000 sq km and contribute 17.5% of its GDP. But who benefits from and pays for the cost of conservation? This study provides insights into these issues based on ... -
Consequences of Organic-Mineral N Soil Fertility Amendments on Nitrogen Uptake and Maize Grain Yield in the Smallholder Farms of Meru South District, Kenya
(Sky Journal of Soil Science and Environmental Management, 2012-11-06)The central highlands of Kenya is generally densely populated and declining land productivity with reduced crop yields has been a major problem facing the smallholder farmers in the region. Land sizes are small and this ... -
Determinants of Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate and its Misalignment in Kenya 2000-2016: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach
(IPRJB, 2019)Purpose: This paper investigates the determinants of Kenya’s real exchange rate and determine the real exchange rate and its misalignment from the long run equilibrium level using quarterly data covering 2000 – ... -
Determinants of participation of micro and small enterprises in microfinance in Kenya
(OMICS International, 2018-05-22)Microfinance development is one of the avenues that can potentially promote performance of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) especially in developing nations. Despite the development, MSEs continue to suffer from high ... -
Determinants of Utilization of Mobile Financial Services in Small Scale Businesses in Kiambu County, Kenya
(IOSR Journal of Economics and Finance (IOSR-JEF), 2018-08-17)The Kenyan government has been implementing policies to expand financial access including promoting mobile enabled financial services to those excluded by the formal banking sector. Majority of small scale businesses in ... -
Determinants of value added tax revenue in Kenya
(Journal of Economics Library, 2017)Past studies that have been undertaken on the responsiveness of Value Added Tax revenues to changes in GDP in Kenya have found a positive relationship. However, the studies omit key determinants of tax revenues, such as ...
