Child labour is a major policy concern in Kenya because it has implications that persist over a child’s life cycle and across generations. This study examines the levels of child labour participation across sectors and ...

This study examines the effect of household food expenditure on child nutritional status in Kenya for children between 6 and 60 months. Household food budget share is used instead of household food expenditure to capture ...

This study examines the impact of the EAC customs union on trade, revenue and welfare on the Kenyan economy over the 5-year transitional period. Using a simple partial equilibrium method to measure static effects, the ...

Kenya is a water scarce country, and this impacts on the social and economic development goals. This study seeks to develop a Water Poverty Index to assess water resources at the county level. The Water Poverty Index ...

This study investigates the effect of regional integration on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flow in EAC countries. It is based on a working hypothesis that links integration to FDI. The model used was a variant of one ...

This study utilizes time series data to analyze the effects of minimum wage on females and males in formal employment in Kenya. Time series data from 1973 to 2009 is analyzed for long run and short run effects of minimum ...

This study mainly attempts to quantify the relative contribution of economic growth and redistribution to poverty changes in Kenya. This is important for policy since a prudent poverty reduction strategy needs to focus ...

According to estimates by the UN-Habitat, nearly 50% of the population in developing countries will be urban by the year 2020 as more people abandon traditional rural areas to live and work in cities. In Kenya, as in ...

Achieving food and nutritional security by all people at all times is a key development goal at the global, regional and national levels. To achieve access to sufficient safe food of acceptable quality at all times, gender ...

A lot of research has been done in finance and development with the aim of establishing the direction of causality. This effort has been necessitated by the fact that important links exist between finance and ...