This policy brief is based on a study on Education and child labour in Kenya. The study investigates the child labour-schooling trade-off owing to the fact that those children who are not in school end up in child labour. ...

Education is the main factor associated with the probability of being poor. Improving educational performance should therefore be a core element in poverty reduction. Since independence, the Government of Kenya has given ...

This study has used micro data to analyse the effect of human capital externality on earnings and returns to education. The parameters of the earnings function are estimated using the ordinary least squares method. The ...

The provision of education and training to all Kenyans is fundamental to the success of the Government's overall development strategy. First, the long-term objective of the Government is to provide every Kenyan with basic ...

The International Labour Organization approximates that about 250 million children worldwide are involved in child labour, with most children working under harmful conditions; that is in circumstances that are detrimental ...

The Kenyan economy has performed poorly over the last two decades leading to deterioration in the quality of life of Kenyans. Among the reasons for this poor performance include poor implementation of economic policies and ...