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Policy Brief No. 09 of 2007 on Explaining Chronic Poverty in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2007)
Chronic poverty can be defined in terms of the duration households are trapped in poverty. The
chronically poor are those who are always poor, or usually living below the poverty line. The
chronic poor suffer persistent ...
Policy Brief No. 07 of 2006 on Strengthening Budget Reforms in Kenya: Issues and Challenges
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2006)
The Government has been undertaking budget reforms with a view to improving fiscal policy,
planning and budget management functions. Following a 1997 assessment of public
expenditure composition and management, the ...
Policy Brief No. 15 of 2006 on Attractig Foreign Direct Investment into Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2006)
Kenya has witnessed a decline in net flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the last two decades. A significant
decline occured in the 1990s when the economy was going through various policy and institutional ...
Policy Brief No. 13 of 2006 on High Maize Prices in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2006)
Maize is the primary staple food crop in Kenya. It is the most frequently produced and marketed crop,grown by 90 percent of households and sold by more than 30 percent of the households in areas where the crop is grown. ...
Policy Brief No. 17 of 2006 on the Future of Monetary Policy Regime in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2006)
Monetary policy is one of the key macroeconomic policy tools that are used to influence
macroeconomic variables by regulating monetary aggregates and/or terms and availability of
credit in the economy. Its implementation ...
Policy Brief No. 01 of 2004 on Vision and Long Term Development Strategy for Kenya's Tourism Industry
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2004)
The capacity of the
country to offer luxury
tourism has been largely
compromised
crowding, over-development
of facilities, competition for
tourists, insecurity, poor infrastructure in general, and
environmental ...
Policy Brief No. 14 of 2006 on Policy Options for Financing Secondary Education in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2006)
Secondary education is important in generating opportunities for social and economic
development. Besides being a transitional level between primary and tertiary education,
secondary schooling provides a base for acquiring ...
Policy Brief No. 15 of 2007 on Enhancing Investment Performance for Sustained Economic Growth in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2007)
The Kenya Vision 2030 aims at achieving a high and non-inflationary real Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) growth of 10 per cent by 2012, and sustaining it thereafter. To achieve this
growth, Kenya needs to increase public ...
Policy Brief No. 16 of 2006 on Strengthening the Regulatory Framework for Private Healthcare Providers in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2006)
Private healthcare provision has grown from a few providers at independence to about 2,640 by 2004.This growth can
be traced in two periods. The first was the 1970s when the government allowed civil servants to engage in ...
Policy Brief No. 04 of 2007 on Governance Challenges in Public Expenditure Management in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2007)
The concept of governance covers the social, economic, corporate, political and cultural
aspects of how power is exercised in an organization or society. The common principles in
the exercise of power include: accountability, ...