Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya: Recent submissions
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The effectiveness of growth and service centres' policy as an instrument for rural development in Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1977-07)This paper discusses the strategy, of growth and service centres as an urbanisation and rural development instrument in Kenya. The issue that decentralisation of urban development through designation of hierarchical growth ... -
The 'labour aristocracy' in interpretation of the African working classes
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Some economic and demographic decisions on smallholdings in Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1977-06)This paper details revised research plans for investigating smallholder decisions relating to production, labour utilisation and saving, employing data from the first round of the Integrated Rural Survey conducted by the ... -
A method of measuring the Gini ratio of income inequality: the Kenyan case
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1977-06)The purpose of this paper is to discuss a method of calculating the Gini Coefficient of Inequality, with particular reference to the Kenyan data. This method is simple, precise and straightforward, and is free of ambiguities ... -
The measurement of growth rates and trend in Kenya, 1964-1974
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Capital growth and development policy : the Kenyan experience
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1977-06)The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of capital investment in growth and development policy, with particular reference to Kenya. The conclusion reached, through the application of regression and correlation ... -
The potential for income and employment generation in Kenya's urban informal sector: a proposed survey
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1977-04)This paper is concerned with a survey of informal sector enterprises that the authors propose to carry out in Nairobi this year. The emphasis is placed on the search for more information on the operation of the sector's ... -
Education for accounting and finance functions in banking
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1977-06)This is a report of a study that is still going on. The study is an empirical inquiry into the categorization of managerial/executive job positions that generally require college education as the minimum qualification for ... -
Some problems of income distribution in Kenya: report of a workshop held at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Nairobi
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Kanduti: a case study
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Kitui trade
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Kitui livestock
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Creation of the Kitui Asomi
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Harambee and rural development in Kenya towards a political/administrative re-interpretation
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Investigations into several economic and demographic decisions in rural Kenyan households: a research proposal
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1977-03)In view of the extreme importance of understanding the relationships between economic and demographic behaviour in rural Kenya, this paper outlines a proposed econometric research undertaken, utilising the data from the ... -
The marketing of maize and beans in Kenya: a proposal for improved efectiveness
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1977-02)Continuing the discussion by O.Hesselmark and G. Lorenzl in "Structure and Problems of the Maize Marketing System in Kenya", Zeitschrift fur Auslandische Landwirtschaft. Berlin 1976, this paper attempts to give additional ... -
Land use competition at the margins of the Pange-lands: a proposal for research in Kajiado district
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1977-02)The interface between pastoralism and agriculture in semi-arid areas is often a zone of competition over land use between farmers and herders. Population pressure in agricultural areas has resulted in migration of farmers ... -
The development of political thought in the works of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1977-02)The literature produced by Ngugi Wa Thion'go has contributed to the understanding of social, political and economic situations in Africa, and therefore to the process of development. The purpose of this paper is to investigate ... -
Developments in primary education in Kajiado district 1963-1975
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1977-01)This paper traces the expansion of first level educational facilities in Kajiado District (one of the two administrative areas comprising Kenya Maasailand) since Independence. With the history of formal education in the ... -
Reaching the rural poor: lessons from the Kenyan special rural development programme
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1977-01)