The trucking industry comprises of heavy commercial vehicles (lorries and trailers), which transport commercial products within the domestic market and on transit to the neighbouring countries within the region. The ...

he Kenya National Bureau of Statistics completed the exercise of rebasing the economy in September 2014. In this exercise, the old base year of 2001 was replaced with a new one of 2009. The main aim of rebasing an ...

The Sessional Paper No. 2 of 2005 on Development of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) for Wealth and Employment Creation for Poverty Reduction singles out restricted levels of technology as one of the major constraints ...

An enabling environment for business improves investment climate and competitiveness of a country, thereby enhancing economic performance for eventual poverty reduction. In this regard, the Government of Kenya in its ...

Kenya, like many developing nations, has attempted to reform its tax system over time, with the impetus coming from the increasing complexity of the tax codes, narrow tax base and concerns with fair distribution of tax ...

The Kenyan government has over the last decade been implementing financial sector reforms aimed at promoting private investment. The main focus of the reforms was liberalization of interest rate and exchange rate, ...

Agriculture plays a critical role in the Kenyan economy. The sector contributes approximately 34.2 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product and employs over 60 per cent of the population of which 70 per cent are ...

In many countries, long term unemployment and underemployment continue to soar. The unemployment rate of youth agl'd 15-24 in Kenya was 24% in 2005/6 compared to the overall unemployment rate of 12.7%. Under-employment ...

I /enya participated in a IK pilot exercise leading I \to the roll out of the African Governance Outlook (AGO), a new flagship report on financial governance in Africa. The report, which is a flagship publication ...