Download or read book Informal Sector Business in Kenya written by Barbara DeGroot and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Making Do Innovation in Kenya s Informal Economy written by and published by Analogue Digital. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Business Associations written by Elin Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jua Kali Kenya written by Kenneth King and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the three televised debates in 1992 among presidential candidates Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ross Perot, showing how candidates used persuasive attack and defense strategies to undermine their opponents and preserve vital issues of personal credibility and policy matters. Includes complete transcripts of the debates. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Women Street Vendors in Nairobi Kenya written by Philomena Muiruri and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Street vending represents a significant share of the urban informal economy. Poverty and high levels of unemployment in Nairobi City have seen the number of women street vendors increase as they take up street trading as a means of survival and a livelihood strategy. However, there is limited understanding about the socio-economic characteristics of the women vendors, challenges they experience and the effects of the regulatory framework on their activity. This study used a human rights perspective to examine the situation of women street vendors because policies dealing with street trading should be based explicitly on the norms and values set out in the international law of human rights so as to promote and protect the rights of women street vendors. Data was collected from women street vendors who were selected from the streets using interview schedules while interview guides gathered data from key informants in the public and private sectors. Data analysis employed quantitative techniques on the questionnaires and hypothesis testing and qualitative methods for content analysis.

Download or read book The Long Shadow of Informality written by Franziska Ohnsorge and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies. This may hold back the recovery in these economies from the deep recessions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic--unless governments adopt a broad set of policies to address the challenges of widespread informality. This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the extent of informality and its implications for a durable economic recovery and for long-term development. It finds that pervasive informality is associated with significantly weaker economic outcomes--including lower government resources to combat recessions, lower per capita incomes, greater poverty, less financial development, and weaker investment and productivity.

Download or read book The use of economic indicators in the evaluation of training projects for informal workers in Kenya written by Maria Victoria Aviles-Blanco and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 1999 in the subject Economics - Other, grade: A, University of Pavia, language: English, abstract: The importance of the Informal Sector in launching the National Economy in Kenya has been a key issue in the Government Agenda. Supporting training projects for the Jua Kali is expected to foster competitiveness and effectiveness of the labor market as a first step for employment creation. Training activities focus in quality and technological improvements for product development and increasing the capacity of trainees to deal with institutions. In the evaluation of training projects success is measured using indicators on final production and investment lacking data on institutional capacity building. The purpose of this paper is evaluate a training program for Jua Kali using the indicators proposed by the donor, using data from Jua Kali Training Program in Thika funded by EU Micro-Enterprise Support Program Training for associates of the Thika Jua Kali Welfare Association in Kenya.

Download or read book Skills Formation in the Kenyan Informal Economy written by Carlton R. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Informal Economy written by Ioana Horodnic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During much of the twentieth century, informal employment and entrepreneurship was commonly depicted as a residue from a previous era. Its continuing presence was seen to be a sign of "backwardness" whilst the formal economy represented "progress". In recent decades, however, numerous studies have revealed not only that informal employment is extensive and persistent but also that it is growing relative to formal employment in many populations. Whilst in the developing world, the informal economy is often found to be the mainstream economy, nevertheless, in the developed world too, informality is currently still estimated to account for notable per cent of GDP. The Informal Economy: Exploring Drivers and Practices intends to engage with these issues, providing a much-need ‘contextualised’ approach to explain the persistence and growth of forms of informal economic practices and entrepreneurial activities in the twenty-first century. Using a diverse range of empirical case studies from Europe, Africa, North Africa and Asia, this book unpacks the different varieties of forms of informal work and entrepreneurship and provides a critical analysis of existing theorisations used to explain such phenomena. This book’s aim is to examine the nature and persistence of informal work and entrepreneurship, across a variety of empirical settings, from within the developed world, the developing world and within transformation economies within post-socialist spaces. Given its worldwide, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach and recent interest in the informal economies by a number of disciplines and organisations, this book will be of vital reading to those operating in the fields of: Economics, political economy and management, Human and economic geography and Economic anthropology and sociology as well as development studies

Download or read book Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa written by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning. While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic responsibilities due to patriarchic norms, a new form of urban dynamism - partly informed by the informal economy - is now enabling them to manage poverty, create jobs and link to the circuits of capital and labour. Relying on social ties, reciprocity, sharing and collaboration, women's informal 'solidarity entrepreneurialism' is taking them away from the margins of business activity and catapulting them into the centre. Bringing together key issues of gender, economic informality and urban planning in Africa, Kinyanjui demonstrates that women have become a critical factor in the making of a postcolonial city.

Download or read book Are Formal and Informal Small Firms Really Different written by Arne Bigsten and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social and Political Dynamics of the Informal Economy in African Cities written by Kinuthia Macharia and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Africa, urbanites have used their ethnicity, friendship, and rural places of origin to cement their life in the cities, most particularly in the development of small enterprises. Social and Political Dynamics of the Informal Economy in African Cities explores how informal economies in African cities operate.

Download or read book Informal Sector in Africa written by International Labour Organisation and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Informal Economy in Developing Nations written by Erika Kraemer-Mbula and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study offers a conceptual model and rich empirical evidence to help researchers and policy-makers understand informal innovation in developing countries.

Download or read book Socio economic Background and Informal Sector written by Ruth Nabwala Otunga and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Informal Economy and Employment In Kenya written by Marwanga Jackson and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers aspects of the informal economy as experienced in Kenyan context. Reading this book will give you insights into the complex nature of the informal economy and the key stakeholders involved. The aspects of government policy, stakeholder participation, skills diversity and incentives to join the informal economy have been well explored. The book covers work that was done in Nairobi's biggest informal business cluster and therefore gives a picture of what is happening in other similar environments. A perusal of the book and learning its contents will give you an informative knowledge about the global informal economy

Download or read book An Analysis of the Laws and Regulations Affecting the Development of the Informal Sector in Kenya written by R. N. Gichira and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: