ABSTRACT This study aimed to establish the challenges of disseminating credit information by credit reference bureaus in Kenya. The information obtained from this study would be useful to both theGovernment, the Central Bank and in particular the Ministry of Finance Kenya to enhance credit information sharing. The study focused purely on licensed Credit Reference Bureaus in Kenya, because credit information sharing facilitated the development of information capital, in the process, it changed...
ABSTRACT 80% of the Kenyan Population live in the rural areas and are involved in agriculture on a subsistence basis. This represents a lack of enterprise culture that accounts for the poverty in the rural areas. In order to eradicate poverty in the rural areas the subsistence farmers need be made to adopt an enterprise culture by practicing their main economic activity as a business enterprise. GOK,(2005) To attain this the factors that account for the lack of entrepreneurial behaviour amon...
ABSTRACT Marketing communication is a systematic relationship between a business and its market in which the marketer assembles a wide variety of ideas, designs, messages, media, shapes, forms and colours, both to communicate ideas and to stimulate a perception of products and services by individual people who have been _aggregated into a target market. Marketing communications are integrated so that a single message is conveyed by all marketing communications tools. There has been a tremend...
ABSTRACT Public debt remains one of the most critical elements of economic development especially in developing countries. This study focuses on the public debt in Kenya and its effect on economic growth. Most developing countries will expect that public debt will affect the economic growth positively. Thus the resources from public debt should be used to finance government expenditures which will spur economic growth of the country. There is a considerable increase in domestic debt as compa...
ABSTRACT Taxpayers complain that tax refunds process is long and tedious. Delay in tax refunds payment has led to businessmen and traders accusing KRA of being quick to collect tax, but slow in refunding. KRA has in the recent past put in place several measures to ensure that tax refunds are timely processed and paid. These measures are geared to accelerating tax refund processes. However, this has not been the case, and majority of taxpayers have to wait for up to five years before receivin...
ABSTRACT Corporate bond recorded a poor performance at the Nairobi Securities exchange (NSE) despite its role in funding companies and in spite of its huge potential as a sustainable source of investment. The primary role of a developed also functioning market for bond is provision of cheaper, long-term finance for funding capital investments. Growth of bond markets is critical to the financial and economic systems of a nation. There is a dearth of studies on performance of corporate bonds i...
ABSTRACT Projects often possess a specialized set of critical success factors in which if addressed and attention given will improve the likelihood of their success. On the other hand if these factors are not taken seriously they might lead to the failure of the project management. Project management occupies a significant place in the national development and reconstruction. It helps in raising the standards of living as well as accelerating the pace of modernization. It carries a wide spec...
ABSTRACT Insurance companies in Kenya are forced to cope with dynamic and competitive environment due to the increased effects of globalization and internationalization. Strategic de-merger is one strategy that aims at differentiating an organization from competitors in a way that in the future it remains competitive. The general objective of the study was to establish the relationship between strategic de-mergers and organizational performance of Madison group of companies in Kenya. Specifi...
ABSTRACT Financial performance is paramount in any given economy. The performance of banks in Kenya is very crucial given the importance of banks in an economy. The financial performance of commercial banks is affected by various macroeconomic factors which this study delved into. This study aimed at contributing to research in determining to what extent macroeconomic factors influence financial performance banks in Kenya. The specific objectives of this study were: to ascertain the effect i...
ABSTRACT Public sector wage bill has been growing rapidly in Kenya. The wage bill as a proportion of recurrent expenditure averaged 63 per cent per year between 1993 and 2005 and 56 percent between 2006 and 2017. In addition, public sector wage bill as a percent of gross domestic product has been high averaging 11 per cent between 2006 and 2017. This is compared to seven per cent international benchmark and Kenya government’s target of eight per cent by 2017 and six per cent by 2020. The g...
ABSTRACT The key objective of the study was to find out the convergence in three sectors; telecommunications, media and information technology. The study sought to find out the extent and speed , challenges and the regulatory policies embracing convergence. Twelve institutions drawn from three sectors mentioned above. The respondents offered information on the extent of computer usage, level of networking of available of the available computers , ownership of production and transmission such...
ABSTRACT During the 1990' s the world experienced a new wave of regional integration agreements (RIAs) that reached unprecedented proportions. The increasing importance of regional integration agreements and in particular their extraordinary expansions during the 1990's are among the most salient developments of the international trading system and its believed to be a vehicle for the promotion of trade and economic growth. The main driver for increasing number of Regional Integrations Agree...
ABSTRACT Mergers are intended to improve the performance and position of a company in competitive globe, mergers help organizations to increase their capital base so as to meet the increasing market demand, diversify to international markets and also to employ the new technologies. The objectives of this study were; to assess the effect of business mergers on employee loyalty in selected companies listed at the Nairobi Stock Exchange. Data was analyzed using SPSS statistical soft ware and ...
ABSTRACT Countries in East Asia Central America and the Caribbean basin have successfully used Export Processing Zones as an instrument for economic development. Attempts to do the successful. It has been argued that economic theory should lead us to reject Export Processing Zones as a development option. Some blame Africa's lack of adequate infrastructure and services to support the business community. Others blame the ignorance of investors or the lack of indigenous entrepreneurs. Peter L....
INTRODUCTION The significance of Kenya's SME sector has continued to grow since the sector was first brought into the limelight in 1972 in a report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on "Employment Income and Equity in Kenya" (Mullei and Bokea, 1999). This report underscored the sector's critical role in promoting growth in incomes and employment in Kenya. However, the HIV/AIDS pandemic is unraveling years of hard-worn gains in economic and social development. Issues related to H...