Eastern Africa Policy Centre worked with the Initiative for Free Trade (IFT), based in London, to produce original research on the UK-East Africa trade relationship. This paper aimed to: Give a broad picture of current UK trade with the East African Read More …
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County Profiles: Profiling the Economic, Social and Political Challenges in Seven Counties
Download Full Report After the 2013 elections, the first county governments came into being. They were not only obligated to govern in accordance with the law; the constitution and other auxiliary laws, but had in the very least a moral Read More …
Bitter Sugar: How Government Policy Has Left The Kenyan Sugar Industry In Chaos
Download Full Report Executive Summary From the colonial days to present day, the sugar industry has been an integral component of the Kenyan economy. It has grown in significance over the years, in the present day the Read More …
County Governance and Economic Development Index: Public Finance Management and Business Environment Governance in Seven Counties
Executive Summary Download full report here The County Governance and Economic Index is an audacious to attempt to evaluate county development from a spectrum of parameters that transcend the spheres of political governance, public finance, and economics. In this index, Read More …
An Analysis of the 2017 NASA and Jubilee Manifestos
Manifesto Watch: Analysing the 2017 Manifestos Download Full Analysis here Manifesto Watch: Analysing the 2017 Manifestos As Kenya approaches the August 8, 2017, general elections, there is need to analyze the implicit and explicit policy proposals contained in the manifestos Read More …
Intellectual Property Rights in Kenya: Ignoring the Goose that could lay the Golden Egg
Enforcement of Intellectual property Rights in Kenya remains an arduous despite the presence of elaborate legislation concerning them. Most of the owners are not aware of the laws put in place to protect their property rights while enforcement have little Read More …
Bitter Sugar: How Government Policy Has Left The Kenyan Sugar Industry In Chaos
From the colonial days to present day, the sugar industry has been an integral component of the Kenyan economy. It has grown in significance over the years, in the present day the sector contributes about 15 percent to the country’s Read More …
Struggling With formal And Informal Trade Barriers
Formal and informal trade barriers remain major obstacles to economic growth and social development in the East African Community (EAC). In the World Economic Freedom Report 2013, EAC countries — Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda — ranked in the Read More …