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Trade Liberalization and Economic Growth: The Role of Regulatory Policies
(Journal of World Economic Research, 2013)This paper investigates the relationship between international trade liberalization and economic growth with a focus on the role of regulatory policies in a selected sample of sixteen sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. ... -
Credit and Employment Growth Among Small Enterprises in Kenya
(International Journal of Business and Economics Research, 2013)Policy makers in Kenya expect micro and small enterprises to provide the bulk of new jobs created in the economy yet these enterprises face significant credit constraints. This study applied regression analysis to establish ... -
Impact of Foreign Direct Investment Volatility on Economic Growth on Kenya: EGARCH Analysis
(Science Publishing Group, 2014)This study investigated the impact foreign direct investment volatility on growth in Kenya using time series data spanning 1970 to 2011. An endogenous growth model was estimated using the ordinary least squares to determine ... -
An Efficient Approach to Reduce Alerts Generated by Multiple IDS Products
(International Journal of Network Management, 2014)Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) often trigger a huge number of unnecessary alerts. Managing the overwhelming number of alerts, especially from multiple IDS products, is a concern to every security analyst. Analyzing and ... -
Effects of Financial Literacy on Individual Choices Among Financial Access Strands in Kenya
(International Journal of Business and Economics Research, 2016)This paper investigates effects of financial literacy on individual choices among formal financial services, informal financial services, and complete financial exclusion in Kenya. The study employed cross-sectional analysis ... -
Africa's Development Metamorphosis: Lessons from China
(Scholars Citech Research Organization, 2016)China is a fast-growing world economy that has overtaken the United States of America. Africa has for a long time relied on donor funding and grants from Bretton woods institutions and Western countries to fund its development ... -
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Fiscal Capacity
(International Journal of Public Administration, 2016)An intergovernmental fiscal transfer is an instrument used by governments to equalize fiscal capacity. However, with the large discrepancies in fiscal capacity among Local Authorities (LAs) in Kenya, it is evident that the ... -
Determinants of micro and small enterprises growth in Kenya
(Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 2017)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 ... -
Coastal Tourism and Economic Inclusion in Indian Ocean Rim Association States
(Global Economic Governance, 2018)The inclusiveness of tourism development is coming under close academic and policy scrutiny, including in policy debates within the Indian Ocean region through the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA). Coastal and marine ... -
Agricultural market access and dietary diversity in Kenya: Gender considerations towards improved household nutritional outcomes
(ScienceDirect.com, 2019)Achieving food and nutritional security by all people at all times is a key development goal at the global, regional and national levels. To achieve access to sufficient safe food of acceptable quality at all times, gender ... -
Households' Energy Preference and Consumption Intensity in Kenya
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2019)There have been notable joint efforts from the private and public sectors in promoting households’ access to clean and efficient energy sources. Despite the noteworthy progress realized over the years, the consumption and ... -
Spatial Variation of Household Energy Consumption Across Counties in Kenya
(African Geographical Review, 2020)Kenya has reported a trajectory of success towards universal access to sustainable and modern energy sources over the past years. However, the discussion on the spatial variations of energy consumption is limited especially, ... -
Making it to the PhD: Gender and student performance in sub-Saharan Africa
(Plos One, 2020)Women’s underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) impedes progress in solving Africa’s complex development problems. As in other regions, women’s participation in STEM drops progressively ... -
Teacher Beliefs About Sustainable Agriculture: A Self-made Measurement Scale
(Asian Social Science, 2020)The study‟s purpose was to analyze the validity of the construct of a self-made Alternative-Conventional Agricultural Paradigm scale using the teacher population teaching high school agriculture in the North Central Region ... -
Determinants of manufacturing firms’ Research and Development investments: evidence from Kenya
(Journal of Business and Socioeconomic Development, 2021)This study investigates effects of firm-level, sector-level and business environment factors on manufacturing firms’ Research and Development (R&D) investment decisions in Kenya. Design/methodology/approach – Panel Probit ... -
Food security and welfare changes under COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts and responses in Kenya
(Global Food Security journal, 2021)The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all Sub-Saharan economies through a multitude of impact channels. The study determines the medium-term macroeconomic outcomes of the pandemic on the Kenyan economy and links the results ... -
Does adoption of on-farm tree planting depend on Forest co-management? Evidence from selected Forest sites in Kenya
(ScienceDirect.com, 2021)Kenya’s forest sector operated without a formal forest policy until 1957 when White Paper No. 85 of 1957 was published, and which outlined ten principles on forest management: Reservation; protection; management; industry; ... -
The determinants of domestic saving in Kenya
(United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2022)The savings–growth nexus is widely acknowledged, both in policy and in the literature. But Kenya’s numerous policy initiatives to encourage savings mobilization are yet to yield the expected outcomes. This paper identifies ... -
Institutions and Export Performance: Firm Level Evidence from Kenya
(International Review of Economics, 2022)This study sought to examine how institutions shape export performance using Kenyan data. The left-censored random-effects Tobit and the random-effects Generalized Least Squares (GLS) estimators were applied on panel ... -
Teacher Differences in Beliefs and Perceptions About Sustainable Agriculture: Influence on the Teaching of High School Agriculture Curriculum
(Asian Social Science, 2022)The purpose of the study was to determine agriculture teacher differences in beliefs and perceptions about sustainable agriculture (SA) and the associations of these with the teaching of SA in the 12 states of the Midwest ...