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Policy Paper No. 05 of 2013 on A Comparative Study on Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Kenya One of the key issues of public debate and attention in Kenya is the difference in wages between the public and private sector, which has made it difficult for the public sector to attract and retain talent. While surveys from developed countries show that public sector wages are, on average, higher than those of the private sector, evidence from developing countries is either limited or non-existent. The general perception is that employees in the private sector, particularly the highly skilled ones, earn much higher salaries compared to their public sector counterparts. An additional problem is the perception that there are even wider disparities within the public service itself, with those in the higher cadres earning disproportionately higher salaries. Also, within certain levels in the public service, education and experience do not seem, as they should, to account for differences in the wages. As a result of these perceptions, and coupled with the rising cost of living, various groups of public servants have during 2011-12 “downed their tools” to demand higher wages. It is believed that wage differences, both within the public service and between the public service and the private sector, lower morale and in effect output in the public sector.

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Policy Paper No. 04 of 2010 on Should Kenya Revert to Price Controls? Prices of many essential items (including food items) in Kenya have sharply risen in the last few years. Such rises can have adverse consequences, including political and economic instability. In an attempt to address the problem, Kenya's Parliament recently passed a Bill that proposes to control the prices of essential goods, including maize, rice, wheat, cooking oil, petrol, diesel and paraffin. This study assesses whether there is a problem to justify the decision taken by Parliament; determines the most important causes of the problem; and whether price control is the most cost-effective intervention to solve the problem. The study recommends alternative policy options that may achieve what the Members of Parliament (MPs) are targeting...

2010-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/2779 2021-11-11T13:09:06Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Policy Paper No. 06 of 2020 on Guidelines for Public Policy Development and Review KIPPRA’s overall mandate is to provide quality public policy advice to the Government of Kenya and other stakeholders and improve public policy making for the realization of national development goals. KIPPRA does this through economic forecasting, policy analysis and research, and by formulating medium and long-term strategic perspectives for economic and social development. In line with this mandate, KIPPRA has a long history of supporting government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in drafting and reviewing policy documents. However, the devolution of power to Counties has greatly changed the context for policy making in Kenya. Both levels of government are required to formulate policies to meet their diverse needs guided by national goals. This has increased the demand for policy advice and the need for KIPPRA to enhance internal capacity to provide guidance in matters of public policy formulation in Kenya. These guidelines constitute an effort towards this end.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/2741 2021-11-11T13:19:07Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Policy Paper No. 02 of 2001 on Policy and Legal Framework for the Coffee Subsector and the Impact of Liberalization in Kenya 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 and regulating coffee fit in well with the new policy framework. This paper shows that, despite policy reform in coffee processing and milling, the Coffee Board of Kenya remains the regulatory agency of the coffee industry and controls coffee marketing. Processing and milling are dominated by cooperatives and the Kenya Planters Cooperative Union. Coffee production has declined due to low use of inputs and neglect of coffee farms. This is attributed to lack of credit to purchase inputs, high prices for the inputs, poor delivery of processing and marketing services, and low payments to farmers. The low payments to farmers are due to high costs of delivery of services by various institutions, which take up about 60% of the f.o.b. world market price for smallholder farmers. Re-organization of the various institutions involved in the delivery of services to smallholder coffee farmers and enforcement of the rules that govern the delivery of the services is recommended as key to reducing the high costs.

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Policy Paper No. 01 of 2000 on Policy and Legal Framework for the Tea Subsector and the Impact of Liberalization in Kenya 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 services for smallholder farmers. A major concern in liberalizing the industry is harmonizing the legal framework, adjusting the roles of institutions previously involved in controlling and regulating the subsector to mesh with the policy reforms. This paper outlines the reforms that have been implemented in the smallholder tea industry, the legal framework of operation and the impact of the policies on institutions and production. It analyses the existing legal framework for the tea industry, the delivery of services by the Kenya Tea Development Authority and the on-farm impact of the policy reforms. The results of the analysis attribute the slowdown of the industry to a poor regulatory framework that is not in harmony with privatizing the industry; poor provision of production, processing and marketing services to farmers by the tea authority; poor governance of tea factories; and conflicts and dissatisfaction among farmers.

2000-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/2571 2021-11-11T13:35:00Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Policy Paper No. 03 of 2001 on Effects of Visa Waiver and Increase in Airport Tax on Kenya's Tourism Industry 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 industry but indications are that this objective has not been achieved. The countries excluded from the waiver perceive it as discriminatory while some of the benefiting countries perceive the policy as a suspicious strategy of luring tourists and covering up of the country’s tourism problems. Furthermore, because there has been no discernible increase in tourist arrivals, the waiver has led to loss of government revenue and necessitated compensatory measures such as doubling of air passenger service charge, with serious implications on the cost-competitiveness of air transport in Kenya. The waiver has also led to an increase in the unit cost of visa administration because not all visitors are included in the waiver. There is therefore no compelling reason for the visa waiver particularly in the absence of clear-cut criteria for selecting the benefitting countries.

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