https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/24 Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:32:15 GMT 2022-10-31T05:32:15Z https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3724 Policy Monitor, Issue 14 No. 1, July-Sept 2021 on Unlocking Economic Growth: Opportunities for post Covid -19 Recovery process and Sustainability The theme of this issue is “Unlocking Economic Growth: Opportunities for post-COVID-19 Recovery Process and Sustainability”. This edition focuses on three articles: Building Digital Essentials to Unlock the Potential for E-commerce in Kenya; Role of the Agriculture Sector in Supporting a Sustainable Economic Recovery: Focus on Subsistence Farming; Unlocking the Potential of Micro and Small Enterprises. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3724 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3688 Policy Monitor, Issue 14 No. 3, Jan-March 2022, on Sustaining Development momentum in the electioneering year and beyond Welcome to the KIPPRA Policy Monitor, the January-March 2022 edition. The theme of this edition is “Sustaining Development Momentum in the Electioneering Year and Beyond”. This edition comes at a time when Kenya is still feeling the effects of drought condition, undergoing reforms in energy sector, and gearing up for the general elections in a few months. The articles are, therefore, focused on measures to promote growth during and after the electioneering period. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3688 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3552 Policy Monitor, Issue 14 No. 2, Oct-Dec 2021 on unlocking economic growth: Opportunities for COVID-19 recovery process and sustainability Welcome to the KIPPRA Policy Monitor, the October-December 2021 edition. The theme of this issue is “Unlocking Economic Growth: Opportunities for Post-COVID-19 Recovery and Sustainability”. This edition focuses on three articles: Resilience in public service: Opportunities in a post-COVID-19 pandemic; Unlocking the potential of domestic trade in post-COVID-19 recovery in Kenya; Safety for the health workforce in the COVID-19 era: Key pillar for building resilient health systems. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3552 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3172 Policy Monitor, Issue 12 No. 4, April-June 2021 on Building Back for Recovery: Perspectives on Health, Equity, Digital Trade and Administration of Justice The theme of this issue is “Building Back for Recovery: Perspectives on Health Equity, Digital Trade and Administration of Justice”. The edition focuses on three articles: Prioritizing health equity in building back better during the COVID-19 pandemic; Closing the digital divide in trade to build economic resilience during COVID-19 and beyond; and Administration of justice in the face of COVID-19: Trends and lessons. Further, the Policy Monitor provides key highlights on recent economic developments and various activities and events undertaken by the Institute during the fourth quarter. Among the key activities highlighted include the Kenyan Think Tanks Symposium whose objective was to deliberate on the thinks tanks’ role in supporting recovery from COVID-19; the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between KIPPRA and the National Land Commission on mutual areas of collaboration; and the 4th KIPPRA Annual Regional Conference Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3172 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3025 Policy Monitor, Issue 7 No. 2 January-June 2015 on Supremacy Wars Between State Agencies in Kenya Could Compromise Good Governance Although each arm of government is independent of the other, the three are designed such that their functions complement and check on the excesses of the other. Good governance is compromised when either arm of government performs its functions in a way that encroaches on the mandate of the other. When the other arm asserts its position and challenges the encroaches this spurs supremacy wars and undermines institutional inter-dependence, which is critical for good governance. The promulgation of the new Constitution in Kenya in 2010 heralded an era of strengthened institutions of governance. Chapter 8 of the Constitution creates a bi-cameral Parliament comprising the National Assembly and the Senate, each with a clear mandate. Equally, Chapter 10 provides the criteria for establishment and the functions of the Judiciary. Recent disagreements between the two houses of parliament portray a supremacy war that is likely to compromise the inter-dependence of the Legislative arm of government, which in turn will affect good governance. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3025 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3024 Policy Monitor, Issue 5 No. 1, July-December 2012 on Addressing Food Price Volatility in Kenya Kenya is a low-income country with a GOP per capita estimated at USS 775. Agriculture is a major economic activity. Currently, one out of every four Kenyans suffers from chronic food insecurity and poor nutrition. Several factors are responsible for high food prices in Kenya. On the supply side, rapid and significant seasonal fluctuations in supply, and high global petroleum prices, have led to increased costs related to local food production and supply. On the demand side, population growth has also outstripped food production in most parts of the country. Moreover; liberal trade policies have also contributed to food price volatility. Policy interventions to address food price volatility include: adoption of yield increasing technologies; increasing access to affordable inputs; increasing production of traditional high-value foods; encouraging peri-urban agriculture; empowering farmers with relevant information and management skills to run these institutions efficiently; and ensuring a favourable legal, institutional and political framework for these institutions to thrive. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3024 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3023 Policy Monitor, Issue 4 No. 2, January-June 2012 on An Assessment of Kenya's Financial Governance I /enya participated in a IK pilot exercise leading I \to the roll out of the African Governance Outlook (AGO), a new flagship report on financial governance in Africa. The report, which is a flagship publication of the African Development Bank (ADB), is aimed at projecting the African voice on issues of financial governance and serving as a tool for measuring governance performance. It will monitor trends over time and support African countries in enhancing their capability, publicness, transparency and accountability in the management of public resources, as well as promote evidence-based policy dialogue, and inform financial governance reforms. Kenya has been involved in the pilot phase of the project, and this article provides the experiences arising from the piloting. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3023 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3022 Policy Monitor, Issue 4 No. 1, July-September 2011 on Unemployment in Kenya In many countries, long term unemployment and underemployment continue to soar. The unemployment rate of youth agl'd 15-24 in Kenya was 24% in 2005/6 compared to the overall unemployment rate of 12.7%. Under-employment increased from 5% of those employed in 1999 to 21 % of those employed in 2005- 2006. Urban unemployment rate (19.9%) was relatively higher than rural unemployment rate (9.8%), due to people moving to urban areas to seek employment. Due to the negative socio-economic impact on the economy, the unemployment problem can no longer be wished away. Social challenges such as delinquency and psychological disorders result from high unemployment, potentially affecting both public and private investments as well as economic growth. It is against this background that KIPPRA conducted a study on the unemployment challenge in Kenya. The study examines the interventions and incentives that other countries have used to tackle unemployment. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3022 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3019 Policy Monitor, Issue 1 No. 2, October-December 2003 on Building and Construction Yet to Provide Impetus to Economic Recovery One of the Government of Kenya's policy objectives is to put in place sound macroeconomic policies to achieve economic and social targets. Fiscal and monetary policies are two instruments, among others, whose design has a critical bearing on the performance of the economy. A key consideration of the stance of monetary and fiscal policies that the Government should put in place is the potential output of the economy and, by implication, the output gap. Potential output is the maximum output the economy can sustain without generating a rise in inflation. Output gap on the other hand is the difference between the actual economic output and the nation's output potential. This gap is an important benchmark for assessing inflationary or disinflation pressur es in the economy. Measur ing the level of the economy's potential output and output gap therefore helps in identifying sustainable noninflationary growth and in assessing the most appropriate macroeconomic policies, specifically the most appropriate fiscal and monetary policies. Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3019 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3016 Policy Monitor, Issue 1 No. 1, July-September 2003 on Improving Public Policymaking for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction The much expected economic recovery has started to pick up albeit at a slower pace than foreseen in the Government's Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and Employment creation for this year. Economic indicators covering the first three quarters of the year suggest that the economy is likely to grow by about 1.8% this year and 3.6% in 2004. This growth will be marginally lower than the previously published forecast of 2% for 2003 and 3.7% for 2004. The downward adjustment of GDP growth is as a result of two major factors. First is the constrained consumer spending. The consumer spending earlier expected to partly underpin the recovery is now likely to suffer from the high overall inflation. The current overall inflation forecast for 2003 is at 10%, which is an upward revision of the inflation forecast at the beginning of the year. The positive effect of the reduction in VAT in consumer spending will be undermined by the more than expected higher inflationary pressures. The other factor leading to the downward adjustment in the earlier forecast is the slow pace of the earlier expected rapid public infrastructure programmes. Spending in infrastructure is going to be lower than expected since the anticipated inflows resulting from the resumption of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility which were to be spent on infrastructure programmes are not likely until the fourth quarter of 2003. Still, major investments in the housing sub-sector, which were expected in 2003 may not be forthcoming until 2004. Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.kippra.or.ke/handle/123456789/3016 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z