Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya: Recent submissions
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A survey of NGOs as small business agencies in Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1994) -
Studying social change through return visits: an Embu restudy
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1994)This paper outlines research aims and some preliminary findings from a 1994 restudy of social change in rural Embu District. The new project updates the author's early 1980s field research, in rural Kenya, and aims at ... -
Spectral analysis of rainfall series in Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1975-03)Rainfall series in various parts of Kenya is subjected to spectral analysis. Contrary to past investigations, it is found that no rainfall behaviour at any rainfall station possesses a ten-year cycle neither is there any ... -
Industrial district or garment ghetto?: the case of Nairobi's mini - manufacturers
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1995) -
Kenya's rural industrial development programme: an evaluation of experience and proposals for action
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1975-04) -
Technological innovation and economic growth: what do they have in common with competitive democracy
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The economics of beef/dairy supply in the traditional farm sector: policy and methodological investigations
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1975-03)This study aims (a) to investigate policy alternatives for the beef and dairy industries through the construction of a multi-period linear programming model and (b) to evaluate a quantified model of this kind. The paper ... -
Making decisions on health care: household management of malaria and visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-azar) in Baringo, Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1995)When confronted with illness, households have to make decisions on the type of health cars to seek. Studies in social medicine have in recent years attempted to delineate the factors which influence illness behaviour ... -
Contested terrain: gender, labor and religious dynamics in horticultural exporting, Meru District, Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1995)This seminar will provide an overview of 18 months of Ph.D dissertation research on the interplay of gender and horticultural production in Meru District, Kenya. The significance of this project is that horticulture ... -
Contested terrain: gender, labor and religious dynamics in horticultural exporting, Meru District, Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1995)This seminar will provide an overview of 18 months of Ph.D dissertation research on the interplay of gender and horticultural production in Meru District, Kenya. The significance of this project is that horticulture ... -
Pollution by sugar industries in Kenya: the damage to communities along River Nyando
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1996) -
Inflation in Kenya: an empirical analysis
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1996)The paper analyses the dynamics of inflation in Kenya by assessing the relative importance of monetary and external factors. This is done through a multivariate Granger-noncausality tests and the decomposition of the ... -
Dynamism among the Japanese small and medium manufacturing enterprises and its implications for development of manufacturing SMEs in Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1997)This paper tries to provide an analytical explanation to the dynamic performance of the Japanese Small and Medium Industries from a technology management and organizational perspective. First, the transformation stages ... -
Enterprise clusters in Africa: on the way to industrialisation?
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1998) -
Lake Victoria's Nile perch fish industry: the politics of joint action
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1999) -
Discussion of the base line survey for the evaluation of the foot and mouth disease control programme in Narok and Kajiado Districts
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1975-01)This paper gives the salient information contained in the fuller base line survey by the same author. It presents data on education, employment, cattle holdings, household budgets, environmental perception, agricultural ... -
Women street vendors in Kenya: policies, regulations and organisational capacity
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Entrepreneurial illiquidity preference and the extended family
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1974-12)It is postulated that the claims of the extended family on the African entrepreneur take the form of a tax on liquidity. Business practices puzzling to trained observers are explained in terms of the entrepreneur's need ... -
A penny saved: Kenya's cooperative saving scheme and some related aspects of rural finance
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1975-01)Within two years of its transformation from a pilot project to an on-going savings programme for smallholders, the Cooperative Savings Scheme's balances increased from Sh 2 million to almost Sh 37 million, and the number ... -
Geomathematical analysis of growth centre patterns: the Nairobi region
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1974-12)This paper demonstrates the use of geomathematical techniques in testing growth centre hypotheses. The hypotheses are: i) in an urban-rural region, there exists a "development surface emanating from a number of interrelated ...