Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya: Recent submissions
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Socio-economic background and informal sector business performance of women entrepreneurs in Eldoret
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Popular culture, family relations and issues of everyday democracy: a study of youth in Pumwani
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2000)This paper deals with young women and men's appropriation of local and global popular culture in Pumwani, a poor Nairobi neighbourhood. Local media articulate Christian ideals of marriage and gender relations, ideals, ... -
Perspectives on poverty and resource degradation
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Financial landscapes revisited: an institutional approach to roots and branches
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2001) -
Value chains in small scale garment producers in Nairobi: challenges in shifting from the old global regime of import substitution to a more liberalized global regime
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Firm compliance to regulatory enforcement of industrial wastewater standards in Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2002)Regulatory enforcement and industrial non-compliance are very familiar issues in environmental protectlon and water resource management. Current thinking recognizes the insufficiency of the traditional regulatory ... -
The interplay between commodities markets and rural livelihoods: a focus on the tea industry in rural Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2003)Through the years, the agricultural sector has occupied a central place in rural Kenya. Agriculture is also a dominant sector in the Kenyan economy and it is a source of livelihood for the majority of the rural population. ... -
Livelihood diversification and entrepreneurship: an analysis of production and marketing innovations in smallholder farming in a rural Kenyan district, Mbeere
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2003)In the marginal arid and semi-arid agro-ecosystems of Africa, livelihoods largely depend on crop and animal husbandry, and non-farm employment. For years, farming in such areas has been compounded by recurrent rain ... -
The Soko Huru trade: network building, informal contracts and compliance failure in the marketing of green leaf tea in rural Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2004)This paper is based on the premise that although liberalisation is assumed to result in market friendly incentives that can encourage the accumulation of capital and more efficient allocation of resources, the ... -
Corruption, firm growth and export propensity in Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2006)Manufacturing firms in Kenya spend an average of 7.5% of their annual sales on bribery, and as much as 14% of the value of government contracts on kick-backs. These averages mask significant sector, location and size ... -
Land use and tenure: entitlement rights for community-based wildlife and forest conservation in Taita Taveta, Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2006)This paper, discusses land use and tenure in terms of entitlement rights. Land is viewed as the basic resource through which other biological resources - in this case, wildlife and forests - are owned, used managed and ... -
Governance and its implications for gender inequalities in the jua kali economy in Nairobi
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Negotiating livelihoods: an analysis of rural household resources and their utilisation in Nyamira District, mid South-Western Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2006)The failures of rural development policy to bring about widespread improvement of rural livelihoods have never been adequately examined and explained. There exist knowledge gaps on how poor people arrive at livelihood ... -
Extent and forms of donor proliferation and coordination in Kenya: the case of inclusive industrialisation and governance reform 2000-2005
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Biotechnology innovation in Kenya: where are the smallholder farmers?
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2007)This study sets out to investigate the role of small holder farmers amidst the intervention of other actors in biotechnology innovation in the maize sub-sector, in Kenya. This exploratory research is a result of the ... -
Factor intensity in Kenya's industrial sector: an input ration analysis
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1974-08)Three approaches - value added approach, capital consumption approach, capital cost approach - are utilised to assess the relative factor intensities in small and large firms in Kenya. We conclude that small scale firms ... -
Operations of export monopoly and price stabilising boards in East and West Africa: a review of methodology
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1974-09)This paper surveys major research on the effort of Export Monopoly boards in Stabilizing prices and Incomes to domestic producers of various crops in West and East Africa. It does not claim to be exhaustive but it does ... -
A preliminary analysis of some social surveys of old Bondeni, Nakuru: the tenant population
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1974-08)The aim of this paper is threefold: (1) to characterize Old Bondeni in terms of its demography and social organization in anticipation of a later discussion of the social structure of an established, urban-centred ... -
Resource use in a medium potential area: the Mbere rural economy
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Management development and training in Kenya, preliminary findings
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1974-07)This paper reports on the preliminary findings on an ongoing study in the area of management development and training in Kenya's private sector. It begins with an assessment of the quantitative and qualitative current and ...