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Effect of working capital management practices on financial performance: A study of small scale enterprises in Kisii South District, Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2012-05-09)Small-scale enterprises (SSEs) are acknowledged in Kenya as significant contributors to economic growth. Despite this, it is estimated that up to 40% of the start-ups fail by year 2 and at least 60% close their doors by ... -
Effect of Information Systems on Revenue Collection by Local Authorities in Homa Bay County, Kenya
(2013)This paper examined the effect of Information Systems on revenue collection of Local Authorities in HomaBay, Kenya. Study objectives included establishing the relationship between internal control systems, Information ... -
The Relationship between Fiscal Deficits and Economic Growth in Kenya: An Empirical Investigation
(2013)The Kenyan government has been committed to a stable macroeconomic environment, characterized by low and stable inflation and sound fiscal policy. However, in the late 1970s to date, the government has continued to ... -
market-based and bank-based financial structure on economic growth in some selected Ecowas countries
(International Journal of Education and Research, 2013)There has been a lot of debate as to which of the financial system or structure promotes Economic Growth in an economy. In this sense policy makers have debated the relative merit of bank based and market based in affecting ... -
Effect of micro finance on performance of women owned enterprises, in kisumu city, kenya
(2013)Micro financing is the provision of financial services to low-income clients or solidarity lending groups that lack access to banking and its related services. Traditionally, women based enterprises have not been ... -
An analysis of the market POA case of Rachuonyo South
(2013)Despite the potential of sweet pot poverty reduction through incom growing regions still live below poverty index of 77% producing areas in Kenya. Thus, with the view of determining if monopoly powers to their advanta ... -
Effects of Strategic Decision Making on Firm`s Performance: A Case Study of Safaricom Limited, Nairobi, Kenya
(International Journal of Business and Social Science, 2013)The present study considers potential performance effects associated with strategic decision making. Enhancement of an organization`s communication capabilities may influence performance through improved strategic decision ... -
Effect of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund on youth enterprises in Kenya
(2013)This study sought to determine the effect of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF) on youth enterprises. The study location was in Siaya County, Kenya and stratified random sampling was used to select 28 financiers ... -
EXISTING TRENDS IN FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES OF KENYA’S MAIN TRADING CURRENCIES
(European Scientific Journal, 2013)Performance of a security market reflects the economic situation of a country as it is affected by both a country’s domestic and foreign economic events. Given the current increased level of cross borders transactions ... -
Literature Review on the Relationship between Microfinance Provision and Women Enterprise
(2013)Despite the crucial role of women entrepreneurs in the economic development of their families and countries; it is, however, discovered that women entrepreneurs have low business performance compared to their male ... -
Factors Affecting Performance of Trade Unions in Kenya
(American Journal of Business and Management, 2013)Trade unions have been used to settle disputes between members and management, the implementation of changes and securing adequate representation of members in government, public and private sector. The objective of this ... -
Eyeless in Academe: An American View of Disciplinary Myopia
(2013-03)The division of universities into academic departments has deleterious effects on the educational enterprise. Our external publics perceive universities to be in disarray, irrelevant to current problems and preoccupied ... -
The future of organizations: Musings of a Manager
(Leena and Luna International, 2013-04)The future of organizations: Musings of a Manager -
Uptake of task shifting as a community strategy in Kenya
(2013-05-30)The objective of the study was to evaluate the uptake of task shifting as a community strategy in Kenya. This study adopted qualitative data collection methods in three different contexts; peri-urban, rural and arid ... -
Validating Biosecurity Principles for Indigenous Chicken Scale
(Horizon Research Publishing, 2013-08)Indigenous chicken are populous in most developing countries, supporting the livelihoods of many rural folks yet are produced under very low or no biosecurity principles, leading to low productivity. Consumers on the ... -
Relationship between Bio security principles and consumer attitudes
(2013-08-31)Indigenous chicken abound in Kenya and are produced under minimal/very low levels of biosecurity principles resulting in low productivity. Consumers however exhibit high preferences indigenous chicken products. The aim ... -
Determinants of demand for sweet potatoes at the farm, retail and wholesale markets in Kenya
(Horizon Research Publishing, 2013-09)Despite the potential of sweet potato in helping to meet Kenya's food needs and poverty reduction through income generation, detailed information on sweet potato demand relations is unavailable to enable the traders ... -
Is Kenya’s Current Account Sustainable ? A Stationarity and Co integration Approach
(2013-09-30)The objective of this paper is to examine the sustainability of the current account deficits in Kenya. In this respect, stationarity and Cointegration test was employed to ascertain sustainability of the current account ...