Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Law, Business Mgt (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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The Gender Dimension of Songs in Maragoli Marriage Ceremonies
(Department of Literature, University of Nairobi, 1998-09)The marriage song in the Maragoli community has been the monopoly of women over the years. There are various reasons why women play a central role in the marriage song. In the first instance, the culture requires a woman ... -
Client satisfaction with family planning services: a case study of five clinics in Uganda
(Department of Arts-institute of population studies and research, 1996)Uganda, like most developing countries has a population with a high fertility rate of7.2 children per woman in 1989. Attempts at reducing these levels began in 1957 with establishment of the Family Planning ... -
Political patronage and privatization of public enterprises: A comparative study of Kenya and Rwanda
(2007)This study is a comparative analysis of privatization of public enterprises in Kenya and Rwanda. The study seeks to assess the relative influence of patronage and economic considerations on the exercise of public enterprise ... -
Food insecurity among female-headed households in ankober, northern Ethiopia:
(2007)Ankober region is recurrently experiencing acute food shortage. Food production is becoming increasingly unpredictable, the situation is raising alarm and this has affected female headed house holds greatly. The purpose ... -
Kenya’s implementation of AGOA
(Institute of Diplomacy & International Studies (IDIS), 2007-09)In this project, the researcher assesses the impact of the implementation of the Africa Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) initiative by the American government to Sub- Saharan African countries as a whole with a bias to the ... -
Financial liberalization and fiscal variables in Kenya
(Department of Economics, University of Nairobi,, 2001)This study has attempted to highlight one of the specific areas that are affected by financial liberalisation. It was exploring into the response of fiscal variables to financial sector reforms and what kind of fiscal ... -
The impact of credit on small enterprises growth in Kenya the case for Nairobi
(University of NairobiDepartment of Economics, 2003)Economic hardship in Kenya led to many reforms and the focus of government policy is now on poverty eradication. Micro and small-scale enterprises is seen as the major area of job creation and elimination of the trend ... -
The impact of mobile telephone on Kenya's informal SME sector: a comparative study of Nairobi and Rachuonyo districts
(2005)Performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is affected by such factors as weak infrastructure network, limited capacity to identify, seek and use appropriate technology; and weak institutional arrangements for ... -
Infrastructural constraints and performance of Uganda's manufacturing
(Department of Economics, 2007)The period 2005/06 witnessed an unprecedented deterioration of important infrastructure (mainly manifested in unreliable electric power supply) that is of crucial importance to almost all productive activity. Indeed, ... -
Branch network and performance: a study of commercial banks in Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Economics, 1991)This study investigated the impact of branch network on cornrnercial banks' performance using a hybrid of descriptive and analy:ic methodology. In particular a profit function was specifiec and estimated. Cross-sectional ... -
Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and fiscal capacity in kenya
(School of Economics, 2007)This study examined the intergovernmental fiscal transfers and fiscal capacity in Kenya. Its main objective was to analyze the horizontal imbalances in revenue collection within local authorities in Kenya by identifying ... -
Robbery with violence in Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Arts Sociology, 1991-04)The study empirically examines robbery with violence not as an isolated criminal event, but as a reflection of conflicting property relations within the Kenyan Society. Thus robbery with violence is viewed as a likely ... -
The impact of minimum wage legislation on employment in kenyan manufacturing sector 1970-2001
(Department of Economics, 2006)The impact of minimum wages on the labor market has been a recurrent and controversial issue in the theoretical and empirical literature. Most of the studies have focused on industrialized countries and the few on ... -
Determinants of the External Debt Burden: an Analysis for Kenya 1970-1989
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Giriama funeral songs: a functional aesthetic study
(University of NairobiDepartment of Linguistics and African Languages, 2000)This study is based on the analysis of Giriama funeral songs as oral literary works of art with the objective 'of establishing their social functions and aesthetic effects particularly on the intended audience. The ... -
National interests as a constraint to regional integration: a case study of Kenya in the East African community
(University of NairobiInstitute of Diplomacy and International Studies, 2008)This study takes cognizance of the fact that regional integration is a necessity and not a choice for the survival of East Africa's small national economies in the contemporary globalization era. It argues that the ... -
Financial development and economic growth in Kenya
(Department of Economics, University of Nairobi, 2008-07)The relationship between financial development and economic growth is a crucial issue for both developing and developed countries. The importance of this issue depends on the financial intermediation functions and their ... -
Critical assessment of the socio-economic effects of civil war on women: a case study of Somali women refugees in Dadaab, Kenya (1991-2007)
(University of NairobiDepartment of Arts International Studies, 1994)This study was premised on the fact that the effects of civil wars on civilians is mixed because they occasion severe socio-economic losses while at the same time inaugurating a long term process through which civilians ... -
The determinants of the level of international reserve holdings in Kenya an empirical analysis
(Department of Economics, 1995-09)International reserves form an integral part of a nation's overall portfolio of foreign assets . These reserves are held by monetary authorities so as to enable intervention in the foreign exchange market, finance an ... -
The impact of macro-economic risk on stock prices in Kenya, 2000-2005
(Department of Economics, University of Nairobi, 2008-08)This document examines the impact of macroeconomic risk on stock prices in the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE). One important factor which affects the determination of prices and the growth of capital markets is macroeconomic ...
