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Savings and Credit Co-operative Societies as investment vehicles to enhancing affordable housing: a case of Kenyan SACCOs
(Strathmore University, 2021)The study seeks to explore whether SACCOs can profitably invest in affordable housing through special-purpose investment vehicles such as REITs. The ultimate goal is to increase the domestic funding of the affordable ... -
Scenario modelling of the seasonality of food availability in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2021)The Agriculture sector is the backbone of the Kenya's economy; it contributes 25% of the Kenya's GDP. However, over the years there has been a gap between the food consumption and the food requirement needed by the people. ... -
A Sectoral analysis of the impact of foreign aid on public investment and economic growth in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2016)The purpose of this study was to find out the effectiveness of foreign aid in boosting economic growth in Kenya and its impact on public investment. This paper uses an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Model to estimate ... -
Sectoral public investment on economic growth
(Strathmore University, 2016)The purpose of this study was to find out the impact of sectoral public investment on economic growth in Kenya. This paper uses a Vector Autoregressive (VAR) Model to analyze the impact of sectoral public expenditure on ... -
Semi - markov credit risk modelling for a portfolio of consumer loans - Kenyan Banking Industry
(Strathmore University, 2014-03-20)Based on simulations of implied values for credit worthiness over a period of 5 years for 1000 consumers, we establish a case for the Semi-Markov models as a proxy for internal credit risk models for a portfolio of consumer ... -
Semi-Markov credit risk modeling for a portfolio of consumer loans in the Kenyan banking industry
Based on simulations of implied values for credit worthiness over a period of 5 years for 1000 consumers, we establish a case for the semi-markov models as a proxy for internal credit risk models for a portfolio of consumer ... -
Semi-Markov model for evaluating the HIV patient treatment cost
The aim of this study is to model the progression of HIV/AIDS disease and evaluate the cost of the anti-retroviral therapy for an HIV infected patient under ART follow-up using Non homogeneous semi-Markov processes. States ... -
Shariah-stock screening-procedure Shariah-compliant listed-equities in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015)Kenya vision 2030 is the country 's development blue print covering the period 2008 to 2030, it aims at transforming Kenya into an industrialized middle-income country, and among the priority sectors that will see to this ... -
A short - Term Now - Casting model for Kenyan's Quarterly GDP - the dynamic factor model approach
(Strathmore University, 2015-11)This research study, A Short-Term Now-Casting Model for Kenyan's Quarterly GDP: The Dynamic Factor Model Approach, was carried out with the need to: establish a set of common factors explaining variations in macroeconomic ... -
Significance of volatility components in pricing: case for an emerging market
(Strathmore University, 2017)This research is an investigation of the volatility structure of the Kenyan financial market and its influence on stock returns. Using the little-known component GARCH, I decompose market volatility into its long run and ... -
Smooth tests of goodness of FIT for hazard Functions: an application to HIV retention data
(Strathmore University, 2017)In this study, we apply the methodology of smooth tests of goodness-of-fit to hazard functions. The smooth test formulation applied here is an extension of Neyman’s smooth test and is obtained by nesting the null hypothesis ... -
Social health insurance in Kenya - learning from experiences of other countries to enable success
(Strathmore University, 2015-11)Social Health Insurance (SHI) refers to an insurance scheme in which the policyholder is compelled or encouraged to take up health insurance through the intervention of a third party usually the employer. The movement ... -
Song sale forecasting based on standalone music streaming a case study of spotify on popular US chart songs
(Strathmore University, 2021)The recent rise in music streaming services and audiovisual platforms has facilitated listeners and music enthusiasts from all around the globe with even easier and cheaper access to music than ever before. However, this ... -
Spatial analysis of tuberculosis amongst teenagers in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2018)Tuberculosis (TB) is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide and the leading cause from a single infectious agent, ranking above HIV/AIDS. Despite being preventable and curable, tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause ... -
Spatial models for infants HIV/AIDS incidence using an integrated nested laplace approximation approach
(Strathmore University, 2019)Background: Kenya has made significant progress in the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV through increasing access to HIV treatment and improving the health and wellbeing of women and children living with ... -
The status of private equity in Kenya - a comparative study with South Africa
(Strathmore University, 2014-03-21)This paper gives an insight into the Kenyan Private Equity Industry compared to that of South Africa as well as the underlying reasons for the stark differences. It also highlights challenges that the industries, including ... -
A stochastic analysis of medical misdiagnosis in children
(Strathmore University, 2015)Medical misdiagnosis has been an issue on the rise in the past decade with an observed increase in medical malpractice cases. In Africa, most malpractice cases are due to negligence and misdiagnosis, with the cases of ... -
Stochastic model for In-Host HIV dynamics with therapeutic intervention
Mathematical models are used to provide insights into the mechanisms the dynamics between HIV and CD4+ cellular populations and molecuar interactions can be used to investigate the eff ective points of interventions in the ... -
"Stochastic model for In-Host HIV dynamics with therapeutic intervention
Untangling the dynamics between HIV and CD4 cellular populations and molecular interactions can be used to investigate the e fective points of interventions in the HIV life cycle. With that in mind,we propose and show the ...
