Since the advent of the Economic Recovery Strategy (ERS) in 2003, the government has indicated its commitment to tackle insecurity in an attempt to provide a favourable environment for economic growth. In the ERS, provision ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Achieving and sustaining high levels of economic growth has been a primary focus for policy makers in post-independent Kenya. However, economic growth has been episodic, and achieving sustainable growth remains elusive. ...

This paper provides estimates of technical efficiency in Kenya sugar factories. It examines factors that affect technical efficiency by applying a stochastic production frontier approach over the period 1996-2005 using ...

Energy fuels virtually all the systems supporting mankind, and is essential in both rural and urban areas. Lack of adequate and reliable energy supply reduces the potential/or achieving major structural changes in rural ...