type of lending, very little is known on their contribution among farm related productive activities in Kenya. This paper … Kenya. Results show significant effects of group based lending on production via improved factors such as fertilizer …

With declining Irish potato production trends in Kenya this paper identifies and analyses factors that influence the … economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder …

input use and productivity in Kenya. It finds a positive and significant impact of the intervention on the use of seeds … adoption of modern technologies and farm productivity. Improved smallholder farmers’ access to markets via the recent …, fertilizers, land, and labor productivity. However, a negative impact on labor usage is found. …

This paper uses firm level survey data to examine productivity, and export, skills and technological intensities … enjoyed statistically highly significant higher labour productivity means than local firms in textile and garment … productivity, the coefficient of technology index was higher in the foreign firms' sample than in the local firms' sample. Local …

productivity gains to above 20%. The analytical approach developed and applied here may also be useful for the evaluation of other …

A rapidly increasing share of firms in Kenya consists of not only small but also informal establishments. This paper … investigates the role of ethnicity and other factors in the choice of formality status at start-up. Differences in productivity … status, while the network implications of ethnicity account for the differences in firm productivity, investment and growth …

firms mainly stems from high labour cost, while impact of inefficiency is quite small. Productivity accounts little for the …

This paper uses firm level survey data to examine productivity, and export, skills and technological intensities … enjoyed statistically highly significant higher labour productivity means than local firms in textile and garment … productivity, the coefficient of technology index was higher in the foreign firms' sample than in the local firms' sample. Local …

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the adoption of technological packages in agriculture Kenya on the … Government of Kenya. To this end, we collected data on beneficiaries through a survey of 1000 households in the district of … Lugari, in Western Kenya. We use propensity score matching to compute the average treatment effect on the treated. We find …