Social protection has become a fundamental focus of governments and policymakers to eradicate poverty. They are key in protecting vulnerable and marginalized population from sinking into absolute poverty and thus evolved ...

This dissertation estimates the changes in fertility rates in SSA, achieved by targeting government expenditure on education towards women’s education. Additional determinants of fertility were included in the model to ...

Businesses within the Cultural and Creative Sector (CCS) are credited with contributing substantially to the economies of many countries worldwide to the extent of being described as the next frontier for economic growth ...

Successive rounds of multilateral trade negotiations over the years have progressively reduced traditional barriers to trade such as tariffs and quotas which are readily measurable. However, as trade becomes more liberalized, ...

The manufacturing sector plays an important part in the economic development of Kenya and forms a critical pillar in the achievement of the government’s Big Four agenda. Attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the ...

Access to loans is instrumental in deepening financial inclusion and supporting small business growth. With the increasing digitization in the Kenyan economy, many digital lenders' availability has been integral in ...

The study focused on the informal micro retail sector in Nairobi researching on the enterprises in the Smart Duka project run by a Non-Governmental Organization. The study offered novelty by focusing on the most marginalized ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has seen an increase in the frequency, intensity and cost of natural disasters. The associated effects suggest that governments are lagging on their disaster mitigation financing obligations, since ...

Research on AGOA’s impact is largely scanty and findings are mixed. Most prior studies on AGOA have been carried out at a high degree of aggregation, estimating its effects on overall bilateral export flows, relying on ...