Kenya has put a lot of emphasis on human capital development as a way of facilitating economic growth. The link between human capital (skills) and growth is through high productivity and improved competitiveness. This ...

This paper uses time series data to analyze the impact of minimum wages on employment in the private and public formal sectors in Kenya. An error correction model is used to analyse the long-run and short-run effect of ...

This paper examines a range of factors that determine primary school output (proxied by examination performance) with an aim of identifying the main inputs that are of policy relevance in the improvement of quality of ...

This study analyses the current MTEF budgetary process in Kenya with the aim of examining the extent to which it addresses the concerns of the social sector. It reveals that the MTEF budget process is not efficient in ...

This study analyses the status, determinants and strategies for expanding access to secondary education in Kenya. A logit model is used to analyse the factors influencing access to secondary education schooling in Kenya. ...

The overall goal of the Government of Kenya is to promote and improve the health status of all Kenyans by making health services more effective, accessible, and affordable. To address problems in the health sector, and ...

The Kenya government has given education a high priority as a vehicle of national development. As a result, the national education system has expanded rapidly since independence. Before the implementation offr ee primary ...

Public expenditures are faced with numerous problems of wastage and leakages of resources mainly due to weak procurement procedures, corruption and weak monitoring systems. Nevertheless, in most developing countries, central ...

This paper uses data from Kenya to examine the role of user charges and quality of health services in determining the choice of healthcare providers. We find that an increase in the price of public health services diverts ...

At the time of independence in 1963, the Government of Kenya identified illiteracy, disease, ignorance and poverty as the main problems to be addressed in the post-independence era. In spite of the antipoverty measures ...