In Kenya, excise taxes on beer contribute a significant share of government revenue. The government is therefore interested in establishing the optimal excise tax rates for the different types of beer-lager and stout. The ...

This paper reviews tourism performance in Kenya in relation to the policy framework, focusing specifically on the absence of a shared vision and a long-term development strategy. Tourism is Kenya's third largest foreign ...

Strategies aimed at reducing poverty need to identify factors that are strongly associated with poverty and that are amenable to modification by policy. This paper uses household-level data collected in 1994 to examine ...

In a liberalized economy, provision of services in the agricultural sector, including financing of inputs, collection of produce, and processing and marketing of farmers' outputs, is a fundamental issue because it affects ...

This paper looks at the education indicators and their trends, paying special attention to variations across gender and regions. Although Kenya has made an impressive achievement in the development of education since ...

Development and maintenance of physical infrastructure are prerequisites for economic growth and poverty reduction, as they influence production costs, employment creation, access to markets, and investment. This paper ...

This Working Paper specifies and estimates the theoretical equations behind the KIPPRA-Treasury Macro Model (KTMM). The review heavily draws on previous macro models of Kenya, such as the Chakrabarti--or the macro economic ...

Tourism is an important sector in Kenya, being the third largest foreign exchange earner after horticulture and tea. The sector is also a major employer with substantial direct, indirect, and induced employment effects. ...

Poverty in Kenya is caused by a number of factors, which include a high degree of inequality of income and production resources, inequality in the access to economic and social goods and services and in the participation ...

Poverty is a major social and economic concern in Kenya. According to the 1997 welfare monitoring survey, more than half of Kenya’s population is poor. The government, together with donors, the private sector, the civil ...