Global business pressures generated by globalization and liberalization have shifted emphasis from traditional factors of competitiveness (such as price reductions) towards new forms of competitiveness (such as innovation ...

One of Kenya’s development goals is to provide an enabling environment for both local and foreign investors. An important element of such an environment is the physical infrastructure especially land and workspaces. An ...

This study looks at the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows and various institutional factors. The study uses data for developing countries and draws implications for Kenya. Kenya has in the last ...

The study explores the development of the Nairobi Stock Exchange primary market since its inception in 1953. To understand the factors influencing growth of the market, the study uses a historical perspective approach. ...

This paper assesses the current regulatory framework in the heavy commercial vehicles industry sub-sector. The transport sector constitutes a major component of the services sector in Kenya and has a big potential as one ...

Over the years, a number of policies have been designed and implemented to ensure agriculture continues to play an important role in economic development. This paper discusses the policies that have guided the ...

Although child healthcare receives enormous attention from governments, households and international organizations in developing countries, the economics of child healthcare in Kenya remain unexplored, denying this ...

Poverty in Kenya is caused by a number of factors, which include low agricultural productivity and poor marketing of industrial and agricultural products, insecurity, unemployment and low wages, poor governance, misallocation ...

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 ...

Kenya has since independence from Britain in 1963 undergone a number of political and economic phases. Like most African countries, Kenya's economy in the 1960s and 1970s was characterised by controls and a protective, ...