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Access to Government Public Procurement Opportunities

21 June 2021

The youth, women and persons with disabilities are categorized as part of vulnerable populations that are normally over looked by government initiatives and programs and are therefore less likely to receive skills training which puts them at a greater ris ...

Explaining Export Duration in Kenya

21 June 2021

This study establishes the hazard rate of exports from Kenya and identifies factors that explain the duration of exports using a discrete-time random effects logit regression model. A difference-in-differences estimator is used to assess the effects of AG ...

Economic Crises: A History of Economic Thought Perspective

21 June 2021

This is a summary of economic crises from a History of Economic Thought perspective. It also contains information on COVID-19 in Kenya alongside its economic impact. Lastly, the presentation is meant to arouse questions and solutions to the current recess ...

Agriculture as a Determinant of Zambian Economic Sustainability

21 June 2021

For several years, the Zambian economy relied on the mining sector, which has been affected by fluctuations in commodity prices. The new century enhanced the calls for economic diversification, with the agricultural, manufacturing, and services sectors am ...

Growth Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in the COMESA Region: Does Infrastructure Development Matter?

21 June 2021

Using country-level panel data, this study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on the gross domestic product per capita in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa region over the 2000- 2015 period. The estimates are generated us ...

Response to the proposed Kenya – United States of America Free Trade Area Agreement: Negotiation Principles, Objectives, and Scope

21 June 2021

Kenya and the US, in February 2020 jointly announced their intent to initiate negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between themselves. Towards this end, the Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Enterprise Development having consulted and heard ...

The digital trade era- Opportunities and challenges for developing countries: The case of Kenya

21 June 2021

E-commerce has grown rapidly in Kenya, supported by laws governing information and communications technology (ICT) services, e-commerce transactions, data protection and access to information. The government has established one-stop shops for the provisio ...

Economic governance and economic growth in Mauritius

16 June 2021

embarks on its next development cycle.   [This research was published ...

WHO WINS AND WHO LOSES UNDER THE AFCFTA? A SIMULATION ANALYSIS ACROSS ECOWAS COUNTRIES

16 June 2021

Globalisation has become an unavoidable incidence with almost every country involved in some new form of economic integration arrangement. In Africa, the largest trade agreement, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) was recently signed in ...

Modelling asymmetric relationship between exports and growth in a developing economy: Evidence from Namibia

16 June 2021

specific. In order to fill the gap in previous research, this study ...

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