This study has used micro data to analyse the effect of human capital externality on earnings and returns to education. The parameters of the earnings function are estimated using the ordinary least squares method. The ...

Speech Delivered to the National Assembly on 13th June 2002 by Hon. Christopher Mogere. Obure E.G.H, M.P., Minister for Finance, Republic of Kenya When Presenting the Budget for Fiscal Year 2002/03

Since 1969, through the Co-operative Bank of Kenya, the Government, with the assistance of several donors funded 20 projects aimed at benefiting the co-operative movement. These funds were channeled through the Bank on ...

AFC is currently in a very poor financial state. As at 30th June 2000 its total net assets were Kshs.2.078 billion while it owed the Government and Sugar Finance Corporation a total of Kshs.10.3 billion on account of loans ...

This sessional paper focuses on the measures taken to revive the Kenya Meat Commission. The Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) is currently under receivership and heavily indebted to the Government and a number of institutions ...

Tourism is a leading economic activity in Kenya, being the third largest foreign exchange earner after tea and horticulture. Since the 1990s, particularly the second half of the decade, Kenya’s tourism industry has faced ...

Since the pioneering work of Tinbergen in the late 1930s, the use of macroeconomic models as vital instruments for policy analysis has gained considerable interest. Based on historical behaviour of an economy, an ...

Land is both a ‘social’ and economic asset. As an economic asset, land works either as a financial tool or production tool. Land as a production tool is essential in production of agricultural goods. At the same time, land ...

Since independence in 1963, Kenya has invested substantial resources in education. For almost three successive decades, these investments and other government policies led to impressive gains in educational access at all ...

This paper focuses on policy, institutional and regulatory reforms in the food crops sub-sector: maize, wheat and rice. Reforms in this subsector were expected to enhance market coordination and control, in addition to ...