productivity, most economists see them as distortionary, regressive, environmentally unsound, and argue that they result in … to purchase fertilizer. Consistent with the model, many farmers in Western Kenya fail to take advantage of apparently …

This study examines changes in the productivity of commercial banks in Kenya in the context of liberalization using … Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). We measure the productivity growth and its components from a time series dataset obtained … from Central Bank of Kenya publications and National Banking Surveys. DEA method is used to measure Malmquist index of …

, we randomized access to non-interest-bearing bank accounts among two types of self-employed individuals in rural Kenya …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices … explains as much of the variation in outcomes ? sales, profits, and labor productivity and total factor productivity ? in …