Wheat is the second most important food crop in Kenya. Wheat production has however declined over the years due to high production costs, high capital costs, lack of credit for production, and the low level of ...

Strategies aimed at reducing poverty need to identify factors that are strongly associated with poverty and that are amenable to modification by policy. This paper uses household-level data collected in 1994 to examine ...

With globalisation, export-led growth strategy has become a major focus for many countries including Kenya. Although there have been efforts towards diversification of the export sector, Kenya’s exports are still dominated ...

Excise taxes form a substantial proportion of revenue for governments all over the world, and especially in low-income developing countries. Excise taxes are levied on a few goods characterised by low price elasticity ...

In terms of volume and value, cut flowers are the single most important horticultural exports, followed by vegetables and fruits in Kenya. Floricultural trade in the country is export oriented with an end-user focus. There ...

This study has used micro data to analyse the effect of human capital externality on earnings and returns to education. The parameters of the earnings function are estimated using the ordinary least squares method. The ...

This paper examines a range of factors that determine primary school output (proxied by examination performance) with an aim of identifying the main inputs that are of policy relevance in the improvement of quality of ...

This paper examines how bank earnings are affected by the bank’s choice of investment portfolios. It reveals that bank earnings increase with loans and advances, placements in other banking institutions, and government ...

Concern is rising about the performance of the agricultural sector in Kenya given that it is the backbone of the country’s economy. The issue of particular concern is the declining productivity that has been associated ...

Industrialization has been embraced by many developing countries as a means of achieving structural transformation of their economies. In Kenya, the goal of industrialization has long been held as a strategy for ...