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Food security and welfare changes under COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts and responses in Kenya
(Global Food Security journal, 2021)The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all Sub-Saharan economies through a multitude of impact channels. The study determines the medium-term macroeconomic outcomes of the pandemic on the Kenyan economy and links the results ... -
Households' Energy Preference and Consumption Intensity in Kenya
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2019)There have been notable joint efforts from the private and public sectors in promoting households’ access to clean and efficient energy sources. Despite the noteworthy progress realized over the years, the consumption and ... -
Impact of Foreign Direct Investment Volatility on Economic Growth on Kenya: EGARCH Analysis
(Science Publishing Group, 2014)This study investigated the impact foreign direct investment volatility on growth in Kenya using time series data spanning 1970 to 2011. An endogenous growth model was estimated using the ordinary least squares to determine ... -
Institutions and Export Performance: Firm Level Evidence from Kenya
(International Review of Economics, 2022)This study sought to examine how institutions shape export performance using Kenyan data. The left-censored random-effects Tobit and the random-effects Generalized Least Squares (GLS) estimators were applied on panel ... -
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Fiscal Capacity
(International Journal of Public Administration, 2016)An intergovernmental fiscal transfer is an instrument used by governments to equalize fiscal capacity. However, with the large discrepancies in fiscal capacity among Local Authorities (LAs) in Kenya, it is evident that the ... -
Making it to the PhD: Gender and student performance in sub-Saharan Africa
(Plos One, 2020)Women’s underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) impedes progress in solving Africa’s complex development problems. As in other regions, women’s participation in STEM drops progressively ... -
Spatial Variation of Household Energy Consumption Across Counties in Kenya
(African Geographical Review, 2020)Kenya has reported a trajectory of success towards universal access to sustainable and modern energy sources over the past years. However, the discussion on the spatial variations of energy consumption is limited especially, ... -
Teacher Beliefs About Sustainable Agriculture: A Self-made Measurement Scale
(Asian Social Science, 2020)The study‟s purpose was to analyze the validity of the construct of a self-made Alternative-Conventional Agricultural Paradigm scale using the teacher population teaching high school agriculture in the North Central Region ... -
Teacher Differences in Beliefs and Perceptions About Sustainable Agriculture: Influence on the Teaching of High School Agriculture Curriculum
(Asian Social Science, 2022)The purpose of the study was to determine agriculture teacher differences in beliefs and perceptions about sustainable agriculture (SA) and the associations of these with the teaching of SA in the 12 states of the Midwest ... -
Trade Liberalization and Economic Growth: The Role of Regulatory Policies
(Journal of World Economic Research, 2013)This paper investigates the relationship between international trade liberalization and economic growth with a focus on the role of regulatory policies in a selected sample of sixteen sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. ...
