Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Marketing reference and information services in libraries: a staff competences framework.
(2006)The premise of this paper is that the vision of taking your staff with you in the marketing process of reference and information services will be realized only when staffs participate both as contributors and experts of ... -
Open Access Initiatives
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Non Farm Occupation And Farm Innovation In Marginal, Medium And High Potential Regions Of Eastern Kenya And Buganda
(University of Nairobi, 1971)The study reported here tests the hypothesis that an increasing level of farm adoption score leads to a decrease in non-farm occupation score for the farm. The basic assumption concomitant to this hypothesis is that an ... -
Marketing of food crops and purchase of industrial commodities by Nyanza smallholders, 1970-1971.
(University of Nairobi, 1975)We consider the i).lioca.tionproblem of A rurfll household whose income is Awdlable in the form of c+r inventories of farm produce and an Rmount of cash income from non-farm !lctivity. The inventories avail~ble may be ... -
The Methodology Of Economic History
(University of Nairobi, 1975)This discussion of tho methodology of economic history sets out to justify the presentation of rigorous Gconomic models to test : historical hypotheses. It 2rguos for the legitimacy of attempting both directional and ... -
The Role Of Competitive Forces In The Determination Of Wage Increases In Less Developed Economies:The Case Of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1975)The theoretical literature concerned with rural-urban migration in LDCs has almost always assumed that the real wa~e differential between these sectors is fixed by the institutionally determined modern sector urban money ... -
The impact of uniojiza1ion on negotiated wages in the manufacturing sector In kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1975)The paper examines a large number of wage agreements between emloyers and trade unions in Kenya's manufacturing sector. An attemp is made to explain inter-firm negotiated wages for unskilled labour with the aid of ... -
An analysis of the variation in modern sector earnings among the Districts and major urban centres in kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1975)The paper analyses a large body of unpublished data collected by the Annual 2numeration of Employees. Occupational and industrial wage differentials are examined at the national level and then the technique of standardization ... -
Discussion Of A Food And Nutrition Policy For Kenya (Paper Prepared For The United Nations World Food Conference Rome, 5 - 16 November 1974; Kenya-Delegation: Item 9 (B)
(University of Nairobi, 1975)The paper was produced on request of the Head of the Kenya Delegation to the 1974 World Food Conference in Rome. It reflects the authors views on basic policies to improve the nutritional status of vulnerable groups in ... -
Community participation in research: Proceedings of a workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1991)This publication is based on a workshop, coorganized and cosponsored by the Unit of Applied Nutrition, University of Nairobi, and the Health Sciences Division of the International Development and Research Centre (IDRC), ... -
Alternatives for improving production, employment and income distribution in Kenyan agriculture.
(1981)Various ways in which the Government of Kenya can concentrate its scarce resources to accelerate growth of production and employment in agriculture to at least keep abreast of population growth are explored. These measures ... -
Kerio Valley: past, present and future; proceedings of a seminar held in Nairobi, 21-22 May 1981.
(University of Nairobi, 1982)The seminar on the Kerio Valley was held at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Nairobi, 21-22 May 1981. In addition to introductory material and a list of participants, this volume contains 12 papers on ... -
Dietary Patterns of the Marakwet of Kenya
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Going Gentle into that Good Night: Indigenous Therapy on Death in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014-02)Through personal resonance with texts written on explicit and implicit indigenous therapeutic interventions on death and bereavement primarily on Kenya, this paper examines indigenous therapy on death and bereavement before ... -
Adolescent Pregnancy And Its Implications Among Ethnic Groups In Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1993)Adolescent pregnancy in Kenya is among the highest in the world. The adolescent fertility rate in the 15-19 age group rose from 141/1000 in 1962 to 168/1000 in 1977. The rate of those aged 20-24 rose from 304/1000 to ... -
Demographic Situation In Kenya
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Demographic Situation In Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1986)