dc.title: Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Explosive Silicic Peralkaline Eruptions at the Olkaria Volcanic Complex and Longonot Volcano in the Southern Kenya Rift. dc.contributor.author: Wallace, P.A.; Otieno, V.; Godec, P.; Njoroge, R.W.; Tubula, M.S.; Cappelli, L.; Kamau, Paul ; Nomade, S.; Mariita, N.O.; Fontijn, K. dc.description.abstract: The Olkaria Volcanic Complex and adjacent Longonot…
dc.title: Most Kenyan Youth See Government as Failing on their Top Priorities dc.contributor.author: Kamau, Paul; Karimi, Eunice; Murithi, Erick dc.description.abstract: About 80% of Kenya’s population is aged 35 years or below. Those between 18 and 35 years make up 36% of the population (Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, 2022). Kenya’s economy can gain immensely from this demographic if the…
dc.title: Managing E-Waste from Off-Grid Solar Systems in Kenya: Do Investors have a Role to Play. dc.contributor.author: Hansen, Ulrich Elmer; Reinauer, Tobias; Kamau, Paul; Nyukuri, Wamalwa Herbert dc.description.abstract: Over the past decade, the market for off-grid solar (OGS) systems providing affordable sources of energy has seen a remarkable expansion in many developing countries where…
dc.title: Kenyans Cite Criminal Activity, Lack of Respect, and Corruption among Police Failings dc.contributor.author: Kamau, Paul; Onyango, Gedion; Salau, Tosin dc.description.abstract: The police are the most visible representatives of the government. In the hour of need or danger, when a citizen does not know what to do or whom to approach, a police station and a police officer are the most…
dc.title: Accounting for the Gender Gap in Urban Youth Unemployment in Africa: Evidence from Kenya dc.contributor.author: Kamau, Paul; Wamuthenya, Wambui R. dc.description.abstract: Using a decomposition framework and Kenyan data from 1986, 1998 and 2005, this study analyzes the factors associated with the likelihood of unemployment among the urban youth labour force and the disproportionately…
dc.title: Never a Rose without a Prick: (Dutch) Multinational Companies and Productive Employment in the Kenyan Flower Sector dc.contributor.author: Kamau, Paul; Kazimierczuk, Agnieszka; Kinuthia, Bethuel; Mukoko, Catherine dc.description.abstract: The flower sector in Kenya accounted for over 65 per cent of new jobs created in the agricultural sector between 2010 and 2015 and remains a major…
dc.title: Social Capital as a Coping Mechanism for Women Small Scale Traders in the Informal Economy in Nairobi, Kenya dc.contributor.author: Muia, Daniel; Kamau, Anne; Kamau, Paul; Baiya,Harun; Ndung’u, Jane dc.description.abstract: Gender relations are increasingly being transformed in the informal urban economy in Kenya. Women small scale traders (WSSTs) have had to cope by neither relying on…
dc.title: Economic Paradox in Kenya: More Favourable Perceptions Amidst Economic Insecurity dc.contributor.author: Kamau, Paul dc.description.abstract: Kenya and the other member states of the East African Community (EAC) are doing considerably better economically than most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (IMF, 2017). Kenya continues to be rated among the best-performing sub-Saharan economies,…
dc.title: Potential for Women Fish Traders to Upgrade within the Fish Trade Value Chain dc.contributor.author: Ngigi, Samuel; Kamau, Paul dc.description.abstract: Fishing is an important economic activity in Kenya which provides employment, income and food to a significant share of Kenyan population particularly the local community around Lake Victoria. Over the last decade the aggregate landings…
dc.title: Kenya’s Trade within the East African Community: Institutional and Regulatory Barriers dc.contributor.author: Kamau, Paul; Muluvi, Augustus; Githuku, Simon; Ikiara, Moses dc.description.abstract: Regional trade arrangements are instrumental in promoting global trade and foreign direct investment. he East African Community (EAC), one example of such an agreement, is comprised of Burundi,…
