The Sessional Paper No. 2 of 2005 on Development of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) for Wealth and Employment Creation for Poverty Reduction singles out restricted levels of technology as one of the major constraints ...

An enabling environment for business improves investment climate and competitiveness of a country, thereby enhancing economic performance for eventual poverty reduction. In this regard, the Government of Kenya in its ...

Kenya, like many developing nations, has attempted to reform its tax system over time, with the impetus coming from the increasing complexity of the tax codes, narrow tax base and concerns with fair distribution of tax ...

The Kenyan government has over the last decade been implementing financial sector reforms aimed at promoting private investment. The main focus of the reforms was liberalization of interest rate and exchange rate, ...

Stock market development is crucial in financing economic growth. In the financial sector reform process, the government has prioritized the reform of the stock market with the aim of enhancing its activities and making ...

Agriculture is the dominant sector in terms of its contribution to Gross Domestic Product in Kenya (27% of GDP), employment (66% of labourforce), and exports (70% of export earnings, excluding refined petroleum exports). ...

Agriculture plays a critical role in the Kenyan economy. The sector contributes approximately 34.2 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product and employs over 60 per cent of the population of which 70 per cent are ...

Countries that are endowed with resources globally are progressively tightening their local content requirements with a view to deriving maximum benefits from their resources. Local content can be defined as the value ...

Maize is the most important staple food crop in the East Africa Community and define the food security for majority of communities, /is study commissioned by KIPPRA and UNECA demonstrate that maize production is highly ...

The government has focused on enrolment of children of school-going age into the schooling system, culminating in continued significant growth in enrolment rates over the years. Little focus is however directed to retention ...