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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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Appraisal of Kenya’s excisable goods management system using interrupted time series analysis: A case of cigarettes and cigars excise tax revenue
(Elsevier, Science Direct, 2023)
The government of Kenya introduced the Excisable Goods Management System (EGMS) in November 2013,
which is a form of Track and Trace Systems (TTSs) for excisable goods, including cigarettes and cigars. This study
appraised ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...