The high and continuous increase in public debt, alongside its servicing burden, is increasingly impeding Kenya’s efforts in achieving a sustained economic growth rate of 10 per cent per annum as conceived in the Kenya ...

Health is postulated to be the greatest asset in any nation. However, majority of the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries experience adverse health outcomes and a manifest of poor household environmental characteristics. ...

This study seeks to analyze some of the factors that influence wildlife population within the Kenyan rangelands. Wildlife have continued to decline within the rangelands, catching the attention of the government because ...

Tourism has over the recent past become an important industry providing crucial economic stimulus to both developed and developing nations. This has made it necessary to understand tourism demand. This study sets out to ...

Agroforestry presents great potential in the restoration of agricultural land and forest base, yet its uptake by smallholder farmers in Kenya remains disappointingly low in the face of deforestation, averaging 12 per ...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of investment climate and firm-specific variables on the growth of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Kenya. The paper utilized a cross-section survey data of 2,536 ...

The frequency and severity of droughts and floods hazards are projected to increase with climate change. Households are affected through various mechanisms including income and asset losses that translate to other undesirable ...

Policing reforms gathered steam after the 2007/2008 post-election violence during which many Kenyans lost their lives and had their property running into millions of shillings destroyed. The Constitution of Kenya 2010 sets ...

This study is based on the value chain approach to assess key constraints to growth of the dairy industry in Kenya, to explore the current job creation potential of the industry and to assess its labour skills requirements ...

The challenge of creating jobs for the youth is at the core of the development agenda in Kenya. This agenda has been driven by the youth bulge that the country is experiencing which calls for adoption of targeted initiatives ...