Integrity in the Public Health Sector Service Delivery in Busia County

The Dynamics & Trends of Employment in Kenya

Since independence the creation of productive and sustainable employment opportunities has remained a central policy priority of the Kenya government. A number of policy interventions have been formulated and variously implemented in that period. Key among these policies is the growth-oriented development strategy augmented by a high wage and Kenyanization policies adopted at independence (Republic of Kenya, 1964). It was believed that long-term and sustained high rates of economic growth would facilitate generation of employment opportunities at rates higher than the proportionate increase in the labour force (Republic of Kenya, 1969). High wages were also expected to stabilise the labour force, lead to rapid growth in labour productivity and enhance industrial competitiveness and employment creation.

The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Poverty in Kenya

The debate on trade liberalization and its impact on poverty has remained a subject of debate in several forums, both at international and local level. This debate has been prolonged by the fact that there are no theoretical underpinnings that directly link trade liberalization to poverty. Trade liberalization is the removal or reduction of barriers to trade that ensures free movement of goods and services from one nation to another. Trade liberalization affects the direct determinants of poverty, such as consumption, employment and incomes. McCulloch et al (2000) have attempted

A Rapid Assessment of Kenya’s Water, Sanitation & Sewerage Framework

This research assesses the design and implementation of Water Act 2002. More specifically, it highlights strengths and weaknesses of Kenya’s water, sanitation and sewerage framework as per Water Act 2002, and ways in which the identified strengths can be built , and the weaknesses reduced

The State of Competition Report: Mobile Money Transfer, Agricultural Bulk Storage and Milling, and the Media Sectors in Kenya

The State of Competition Report is a research series that the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEAKenya) carries out every two years. The purpose of which, is to examine the state of the market in select sectors in regard to competition policy and practices by market players. Through the State of Competition Reportsm, we are able to highlight the competition challenges present in the crucial sectors of the Kenyan Economy.

The studies were therefore conceived as a mechanism for demonstrating the value of competition in select markets in Kenya. In this edition, the report examined the state of competition in sub-sectors of Mobile Money Transfer, Agricultural Bulk  processing, Storage and Milling, and the Media sector in Kenya. As originally  considered these individual market studies would uncover the trends or structural patterns that impinge or support competition policy and practices within Kenya’s economy.

Kenya Property Markets Scorecard

Property rights are among the most fundamental principles enshrined in Article 17 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights and constitutionally protected in most states. Despite this worldwide legal recognition of the  importance of property rights to building peaceful, democratic, and prosperous societies, access to and protection of property rights vary greatly in practice.

Economic and Administrative Implications of the Devolution Framework Established by the Constitution of Kenya

The Constitution of Kenya was formally promulgated into law on 27th August 2010. The new constitution introduced major changes in the country’s governance framework. A key departure from the earlier system of governance is the shift from a highly centralised to a decentralised governance framework, comprising of two levels of government — the national government and 47 county governments. Previously, the Executive, through the President and the Cabinet, exercised significant political, administrative and fiscal power control over both the national and sub-national governments. This is expected to change with the establishment of the county governments.

A Citizens Report Card on the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF)

The Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) Act was passed into law in 2003 by National Assembly. In principle this Act compels the Minister for Finance to allocate not less than 2.5 percent of all collected government ordinary revenue every financial year for development programmes in the constituencies. The Act also establishes the National Constituencies Development Fund Management Committee (NCDFMC) and the Constituency Development Committees (CDCs) to manage the fund. However, these investments do not automatically ensure high quality of service, equity in access or adequate efficiency.

Benefit Incidence analysis for social spending in Kenya: Selected programmes in Education, Health and Water Sectors

The broad objective of the study is to examine the benefit incidence of three selected programmes within the sectors: Education, Health and Water sectors, in order to establish who gains from public spending in these sectors. Under the heath sector; public spending on public health care was picked for analysis, in the education sector, the free primary education was identified as the main programme of analysis while in the water sector, the rural-urban special water programme was selected. The methodology adopted followed the work of Dewey (2009) “benefit incidence analysis: a practitioner’s guide was followed