Unemployment among the youth is one of the major policy concerns of the Government of Kenya, because it imposes costs on individual youth, their families and the economy. Aware of this policy concern, this study uses a ...

Recent policy initiatives on education have focused on improving access to education and retaining pupils in schools through equity and quality enhancing policies such as the Free Primary Education (FPE). However, despite ...

This paper examines the regulatory issues that govern private healthcare services in Kenya. It identifies the existing gaps which make enforcement of the laws governing private healthcare provision difficult and the laws ...

This study analyses the impact of risk-based capital requirements on bank risk and capital levels. In the past, regulators placed much attention on increase in bank capital without much consideration of the corresponding ...

Liquidity of the stock market is vital if the market is to play a significant role in the development by facilitating mobilisation of long-term capital. During the revitalisation period, a lot of efforts have been made ...

This paper analyses the effect of globalisation on the labour market outcomes in Kenya using micro datasets complemented with secondary data. The analysis shows that during the economic reform period (1970s to 1990s), ...

Agriculture is the most important sector in the Kenyan economy given its contribution to employment, foreign exchange, food, and its linkages with other sectors of the economy. Indeed, the sector’s performance directly ...

Measuring thelevelof an economy's potential output and output gap is essential in identifying a sustainable non-inflationary growth and in assessing appropriate macroeconomic policies. The estimation of potential output ...

This paper uses data from Kenya to examine the role of user charges and quality of health services in determining the choice of healthcare providers. We find that an increase in the price of public health services diverts ...

At the time of independence in 1963, the Government of Kenya identified illiteracy, disease, ignorance and poverty as the main problems to be addressed in the post-independence era. In spite of the antipoverty measures ...