Many people in developing countries stand the risk of acquiring blood borne diseases through unsafe injections and improper handling of injection waste. Recent surveys have established that health care providers and consumers ...

Unlike many sub-Saharan African countries, Kenya is a high tax yield country with a tax to GDP ratio of over 20 percent. A review of Kenya’s tax reform experience reveals that generally, levels of tax rates have been reduced ...

Surveys of manufacturing firms over the last decade have shown that business persons based in Kenya view corruption as a major hurdle to corporate pursuit. Other governance-related surveys have also concluded that Kenya ...

Kenya’s economic development strategy has often used trade policy as part of an assortment of policies towards achieving economic growth and poverty reduction. More recent trade liberalization efforts have aimed at improving ...

The main objective of this policy is to help the sugar industry in Kenya Undertake the following; achieve self-sufficiency in the most cost-effective and efficient manner with the ultimate goal of becoming a sugar exporting ...

A major concern in liberalizing the coffee trade is the need to harmonize the legal framework with policy reform. In particular, the legal framework must change so the institutions previously involved in controlling ...

This paper analyses the likely impact of the visa waiver introduced in June 1999 and the increase in airport tax in December 1999 on Kenya’s tourism industry. The visa waiver policy was intended to resuscitate the tourism ...

Growth in tea production in Kenya has slowed in recent years. This slowdown is attributed partly to policy reforms in the industry, which reduced government control on providing production, processing and marketing ...

There have been various efforts at publishing an extended time series of data for Kenya. These efforts have had a dual aim. First was to make available, in one convenient location, data that would otherwise need to be ...