Additional WTO related topics have been included in the current undergraduate and postgraduate modules of the BCom and BCom Honours degrees in Economics and International trade.

Writing competence is of critical importance in postgraduate studies, because it often is one of very few, if not the only, communication channel(s) open between lecturer / supervisor / examiner and student, and the only real opportunity that the…

75 students graduated with Master of Arts in International Studies and 10 students graduated with a Master of Arts in Economics (doing trade related research and being supervised by WCP members) on Friday 22nd December 2017 at the Chancellor’s…

Dr. Peter Kitonyo and Dr. James Gatauwa graduated on Friday, September 14, 2018 Chancellor’s Court the 59th Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees and Award of Diplomas

This thesis aimed at developing both single product and composite measures of financial inclusion and to establish how it links to welfare and vulnerability to poverty in Kenya. This is motivated by the need to raise financial inclusion to the…

The theory of international trade is one of the oldest subfields of Economics and its central concerns remain those of David Ricardo. In recent years the field of international economics has exhibited a major expansion of the range of topics…

The course aims at analyzing the international economic system and the main problems and events, especially with regard to Kenya and other developing countries. Emphasis will lie on the theoretical framework that helps to explain the actual…

The members of the WTO Chairs Program at the University of Nairobi spent 3 days working with delegates from the Great Lakes Facilitation Project in COMESA Lusaka to validate the Trainers of Trainers manuals.

The original course outline and outcomes have been extended with assistance from WTO experts who provided STATA training and other inputs. The current Research Methodology Course sets out to equip the Economics and International Trade fourth…

The second trial sessions of a new tailored short course in Academic Writing Skills for new Master’s and PhD students in Economics and International Trade took place in March/April 2017. The sessions were spread over four days: 16–17 March 2017…