Browsing RP-Department of Econometrics and statistics by Issue Date
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The Effect of Education on Business Skills Cognition: The Case of Indigenous Microscale Enterprise Owners in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis, 2003)One of the expected utilitarian values of education is the development of competencies for effective business practice after school. This article presents findings of a study on the effect of education on Business Skills ... -
The Demand for Energy in the Kenyan Manufacturing Sector
(ICEED, 2009)The manufacturing sector accounts for approximately 10 percent of Kenya's gross domestic product (GDP). The sector's output grew at an average rate of 8 percent per annum between 1970 and 2005. The growth of manufacturing ... -
Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility and Community Development in Industrialization: Lessons from the Magana Town Industrial Park in Kenya
(Post Academic Publications, 2013)Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to the pursuit of commercial success in ways that honor ethical values, compliance with legal requirements and respect for the people, communities and the natural environment. ... -
Taxation and Private Investment: Evidence For Kenya
(World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2013)Private investment in Kenya has been low for the last four decades. This has stimulated much concern to the policy makers’ bearing in mind that investment is a key variable influencing economic growth. Several economic ... -
Financial Development and Economic Growth in Kenya: An Empirical Analysis 1980–2011
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2014)The paper examined the empirical relationship between economic growth and financial development (FD) in Kenya over the period 1980–2011. The long-run and short-run parameters were estimated by use of autoregressive distributed ... -
Technical Efficiency Analysis of the Kenya Agro-Processing Industry
(The International Journal Of Business & Management, 2016-05)This study sought to provide empirical evidence on technical efficiency levels and trend of the Kenya Agro-processing industry. The major problem of the industry is that it has been under performing in terms of value ... -
Estimating a Finite Population Mean under Random Non-Response in Two Stage Cluster Sampling with Replacement
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2017)Non-response is a regular occurrence in Sample Surveys. Developing estimators when non-response exists may result in large biases when estimating population parameters. In this paper, a finite population mean is ... -
An econometric analysis of effect of poverty on health status in Kenya
(Scientific & Academic Publishing, 2018)One of the most important social-goal world-over is the achievement of good health. This is because, apart from been a fundamental right, it is also an invaluable asset and a prerequisite for improved productivity. However, ... -
Effect of Employees’ Leadership Skills on Project Performance in the Energy Sector in Kenya
(International Academic Journals, 2018)The purpose for this study was to investigate the effect of employees’ soft skills on project performance in the Kenyan energy sector. The objective of the study was to establish the effect of employees’ leadership skills ... -
Effect of Employees’ Soft Skills on Performance of Public Energy Sector Projects in Kenya
(International Academic Journals, 2018)The purpose for this study was to establish the effect of employees’ soft skills on project performance in the sector. In line with these objectives, one hypothesis was developed and pragmatic paradigm adopted to support ... -
Determinants of Choice of Mobile Money Transfer Service Providers in Nairobi County, Kenya
(International Journal of Development and Sustainability, 2018)In the developing world telecommunication sector has developed widely. Such development includes Mobile Money Transfer Service (MMTS), transfer of money using Information and Communications Technology (ICT) framework ... -
Institutions’ effect on households’ choice of saving options in Kenya
(The International Journal of Business & Management, 2018-04)The study uses a multinomial/conditional probit model to analyze the effect of institutions on households’ saving behavior in Kenya. Data from the Financial Access National surveys is used in the analysis. The key finding ... -
Government Expenditure and School Efficiency and Productivity Change: A Case of Public Primary Schools in Kenya
(Science Publishers, 2019-04-16)Education management is a more labor intensive process previously measured by level of school enrolment and education quality with low or no concern on productivity and efficient resource utilization. Trends in increasing ... -
Entrepreneurial Opportunity Discovery Dimensions and Growth of Nongovernmental Organizations in Kenya
(International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science, 2019-08-19)Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) play a critical role in addressing social ills like poverty, employment, and food insecurity; therefore, their growth prospects enhance their ability to address these social ills. ... -
Maize Output Supply Response to Climate Change in Kenya: An Econometric Analysis
(European Scientific Institute, 2020)Sufficient production of maize in Kenya is synonymous to food security and a source of income. Majority of the households in the country grow maize as the main staple food and forms the diet of over 85 percent of the ... -
Restructured Citizen–Government Relationship in Kenya's 2010 Constitution and the Right of Hawkers to the City in Nairobi
(Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2021)This article interrogates how various actors in the Nairobi Central Business District (CBD) space have made sense of the 2010 Constitution’s expansive provisions on socio-political and economic rights to advance hawkers’ ... -
Energy efficiency in the Kenyan manufacturing sector
(Elsevier, 2021)As one of the highest energy-consuming sectors, Kenya’s manufacturing sector share of electricity consumption in 2019 was 50.16%. That of fuel consumption was 12%, the second-highest after the transport sector. It ... -
Tea Production Response to Climate Change in Kenya: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach.
(African Journal of Economic Review, 2022-01)Tea sector plays a critical role in socio economic development in Kenya. It is a leading foreign exchange earner, a major source of livelihood for most rural communities and significantly contributes to poverty reduction. ... -
Effects of Energy Efficiency on Firm Productivity in Kenya’s Manufacturing Sector
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2022-03-22)There is concern about probable energy efficiency and economic performance trade-off, particularly in developing countries which often require more energy consumption to spur their economies. This study assesses the ... -
The Nexus between Poverty, Inequality and Growth, a Case Study of Cameroon and Kenya
(Oxford Academic, 2023)We conduct an in-depth analysis of the nexus between inequality of opportunity and inclusive growth in Cameroon and Kenya employing cross-sectional data collected over two time periods in each country. Empirical results ...
