Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya: Recent submissions
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Some aspects of urbanisation in Machakos township
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The role of growth centres in rural development: II. conclusions and recommendations
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1973-08)This paper gives the major conclusions and recommendations of the study described in I.D.S. Working Paper No. 116. The basic conclusion is that a growth centre strategy should become much more central in Kenya's rural ... -
The role of growth centres in rural development: I. theory, methodology, data
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1973-08)This paper summarizes the basic theory, methodology and data Of an extensive research project carried on in Muranga District from June 1972 to August 1973. This project was a joint venture between the Department of ... -
Anatomy of prostitutes and prostitution in Kenya
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The balance-of-payments and employment-creation effects of import substitution in Kenya: an input-output approach
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1973-06)This paper attempts to empirically estimate the quantitative effects on domestic employment and foreign exchange saving when there is a substitution of final goods imports for domestically produced final deliveries. The ... -
The political economy of self-help: Kenya's Harambee Institutes of Technology
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1973-06)Since mid 1971 local self-help committees throughout Kenya have been raising large sums of money for this establishment of harambee institutes of technology. By April 1973 such institutes had been proposed for Kiambu, ... -
Youth attitudes towards sex in Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1973-04)Data is presented on 1352 young people from all over Kenya and East Africa concerning their sexual behaviours and attitudes towards sex. 49% of the male respondents have had sexual intercourse before they reach the age ... -
Migration and rural differentiation
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1973-04)The aim of this study is to estimate the influence of migration upon economic differentiation. For a change the study does not focus on urban migration. It is argued that the dichotomous contrast between the ideal types ... -
A history of population growth in Kenya and Uganda
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Import licensing in Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1973-03)This paper gives an account of how the import licensing system in Kenya has developed up to and including the introduction of foreign exchange allocation licensing in December, 1972. This means by which different ... -
Economic development and job training in Japan
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Some political implications of service provision: roads and schools and health services
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1973-02)This paper outlines the results of some research into three former county council services - primary education, minor roads and rural health services - taken over by the central government in 1970. It describes the ... -
The spatial dynamics of trade and urban development in Kenya during the early colonial period up to 1915
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Socio-economic factors inhibiting loan repayment on settlement schemes
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Smallholder credit in Kenya agriculture
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1973-02)The provision of subsidised credit for smallholders is widely supported as important means of encouraging smallholder capital formation and production, and as one of the ways of redressing the balance between smallholder ... -
Introductory chapter to Innovation and equality in rural development research and field experiments in Kenya
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Employment and employment creation in rural Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1972-11)This paper outlines a study being carried out into un/under employment in Kenya. The aims of the study are to throw light on some of the problems of employment creation in rural areas, and to indicate how some of the main ... -
Educational investment, rural productivity, and rural-urban migration: some notes
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1972-12)The evaluation of benefit streams from educational investments present particular difficulties in countries with, chronically distorted wages in the "formal" urban sector and rapidly changing supply-demand relations for ... -
Village polytechnic leavers: the Maseno story
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Note of search unemployment and wage differentials
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1972-11)This note presents a formula for the equilibrium ratio of the number of urban job seekers to the number of formal sector jobs when a non-competitive wage differential is maintained between the wage in the formal sector and ...