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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 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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Do Clinical Guidelines Reduce Clinician Dependent Costs?
(Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011)Clinician dependent costs are the costs of care that are under the discretion of the healthcare provider. These costs include the costs of drugs, tests and investigations, and discretionary outpatient visits and impatient ... -
Drivers of Employment Elasticities in Kenya
(IISTE, 2019-08-31)The relationship between output growth and employment elasticities has been of intense debate among many economists. Though there is no conflict between the two objectives, the question that arises is the rate at ... -
Drivers of Technological Innovations: Evidence from Kenya’s Micro and Small Enterprises
(SCR, 2018-05-31)Growth of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) is fundamental to the Kenyan economy. These enterprises play a pivotal role in Kenya’s overall economic growth. In spite of the role that MSEs play, their growth is usually ... -
Economic Effects of Inter-community conflicts in Kenya: evidence of the importance of peace in the realization of sustainable development
(2016-11)The sixteenth goal of the United Nations’ seventeen sustainable development goals (SDGs) seeks to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development. Therefore including the reduction of all forms of ... -
Economic Growth, Electricity Access, and Remittances in Kenya
(HATASO Publishing, 2020)This paper investigated the long-run relationship between gross domestic product, access to electricity, and remittances within the multivariate framework in Kenya using the data for the period 1987-2018. The autoregressive ... -
Effect of credit and education on performance of micro and small enterprises in Kenya
(Scientific & Academic Publishing, 2018)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to establish the effect of credit and owner/manager educational qualification on performance of micro and small enterprises in Kenya and their joint effect using the 2016 MSMEs survey ... -
Effect of dispensation of justice and provision of security on private investments
(IOSR Journals, 2018-09-06)Most economists have argued that government institutions play a crucial role on performance of private investment. One such institution is the justice system that dispenses justice and provides security. There has been ...
