Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Global and Local Strategies to Increase Nursing Educational Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Department of African Women's Studies Centre, 2012-08)There is a critical shortage of nurses in the developing world with an average of only 11 nurse per 10,000 population. Efforts to increase the number of nurses are hampered in part because of a lack of facility, material, ... -
Effects of global financial crisis on funding for health development in nineteen countries of the WHO African Region
(2011)There is ample evidence in Asia and Latin America showing that past economic crises resulted in cuts in expenditures on health, lower utilization of health services, and deterioration of child and maternal nutrition and ... -
Studying the Politics of the Womb over More than a Century
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Assessment of materials management in the Kenyan manufacturing firms-Exploratory survey of manufacturing firms based in Nairobi
(School of Business, 2005)Materials play a big part in the manufacturing firms as it account for about 56% of the annual turnover. This research analyzed the attention and recognition the Kenyan manufacturing firms are giving to the materials ... -
Governance and Prima Facie Refugee Status Determination: Clarifying the Boundaries of Temporary Protection, Group Determination, and Mass Influx
(University of NairobiDepartment of Private Law, 2010)The governance of the refugee regime requires conceptual clarity. An essential part of that regime is the conduct of refugee status determination. One form of refugee status determination is widely conducted but is poorly ... -
Measuring Factor Productivity of the Banking Sector in Kenya
(Department of Economics, 2011-12-30)This study examines changes in the productivity of commercial banks in Kenya in the context of liberalization using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). We measure the productivity growth and its components from a time series ... -
Developing a Sustainable Funding Frame-Work to Support the Road Transport Sub-Sector in Kenya – What Role for Public-Private Partnership?
(University of NairobiDepartment of Economics, 2010-09-02)Road transport sub-sector accounts for 90% of passenger and freight surface transport in Kenya. The latest available reports on road network condition show that it is characterized by very poor pavement surfaces of all ... -
What Would it Take to Realise the Promises? Protecting Women’s Rights in the Kenya National Land Policy of 2009
(Department of Private Law, University of Nairobi, 2009)Land is a critical resource in Kenya, having economic, social, political, environmental and cultural significance. Kenya’s population continues to rely on land for both subsistence and economic activities. In fact, the ... -
The Case for a Policy Framework to Support Productivity Mainstreaming into the Kenyan Economy
(University of NairobiDepartment of Economics, 2012-11-08)This study investigates the probable causes of the very low levels of productivity consciousness in both the public and private sectors of the Kenyan economy. It identifies impediments to the realization of a complete and ... -
Rethinking the HDI: A More Theoretically Consistent Alternative
(Department of Economics, 2010-09-02)HDI has been roundly faulted on many different accounts. Of very notable interest to us is the mathematical treatment of the variables used. The Average Lack Indicator (ALI) used to construct the HDI is a simple arithmetic ... -
The operational environment and constraints for NGOs in Kenya: strategies for good policy and practice
(Department of Private Law, University of Nairobi, 2000) -
Nano-engineered PtVFe catalysts in proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Electrocatalytic performance
(University of NairobiDepartment of Chemistry, 2009)Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are attractive because of their high conversion efficiency, low pollution, lightweight, and high power density. A major area of challenges is the design and engineering of active, ... -
Increasing Auditability in Web Application Security
(School of Computing and Informatics, 2012)As more services become web based and open to a larger audience, security is become a key concern. We discuss the idea of auditability of a transaction in the web application environment and how current logs may not ... -
Famine from Abroad in Little Amu and the Kobole
(Department of Literature, University of Nairobi, 1992) -
Chapter on a tale of two cities: Policy, law and illegal settlement in Kenya' in illegal cities: law and urban change in developing countries
(University of Nairobi,Institute for Development Studies, 1998) -
Women story Tellers and Environment in Groundwork
(Department of Literature, University of Nairobi, 1992) -
Oral Literature and Environment in Women as Managers of Environment
(Department of Literature, University of Nairobi, 1992) -
Gender and Ideology: in Democratic Change in Africa
(Department of Literature, University of Nairobi, 1993) -
Democratic Change in Africa
(Department of LIterature, 1993) -
Legal and Institutional Frameworks as Determinants of Access to Capital by Developing Countries
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Private Law, 2007)
