Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Equality
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Readings on Inequality in Kenya
Author: Readings on Inequality in Kenya
Author: Exploring Kenya's Inequality
Author: Eston NgugiPublisher:
ISBN: 9789966029188
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars
Author: Mwangi Wa. GithinjiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351729802
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000. An analysis of income distribution and development in Kenya, seeking to increase the reader's understanding of the political economy of that country. The author offers three contributions. He provides an estimate of income inequality in Kenya. He presents data on time allocation in Kenya which makes it possible to compare the distribution of work with the distribution of income. Finally, he attempts to construct a class analysis that goes beyond the debates of the 1970s and 1980s, and goes on to draw a number of important conclusions from his findings.
Poverty, Growth, and Income Inequality in Kenya
Author: Rhoda GakuruPublisher:
ISBN: 9789966777850
Category : Income distribution
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
The Constitution of Kenya: Contemporary Readings
Author: P.L.O LumumbaPublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9966031898
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Constitution of Kenya: Contemporary Reading, provides an in-depth assessment of the interface between constitutionalism and Kenyas new Constitution. Focusing on the historical trajectory on the search for a new Constitution, Chapter One lays the groundwork upon which the fault line between constitutionalism and the issue areas are articulated in the other chapters in relation to the new Constitution. The superb chapters on the carefully selected issue areas, make this edited volume an essential reading. The book makes an important contribution to the evolving constitutionalism and policy clarification on Kenyas new Constitution. It is a welcome and timely intervention by legal scholars and practitioners on the new constitution and the challenges facing Kenya in its implementation. The book is an excellent teaching and reading manual for students in law, history, politics, diplomacy, and international relations as well as for the practitioners.
Pulling Apart
Author: Aid and Inequality in Kenya
Author: Gerald HolthamPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113688971X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This reissue, first published in 1976, considers the rapid rate of economic growth in Kenya, combined with its apparent political stability, to determine whether or not this is indeed a case of ‘growth without development’ and, if so, where the responsibility for aid lies in this situation. The book concludes that while Kenyan growth has not been to an ideal pattern, accompanied by an increase in inequality, there is little or no reason to believe that living standards have not improved. It examines the impact of aid on Kenya’s progress at both the microeconomic and macroeconomic level and provides an institutional study of the impact of aid on Kenyan Government policy formation and administration and a discussion of British aid’s political purposes and influence in Kenya. The authors conclude that some of the effects predicted by the critics of aid are visible, but that the net effect on general living standards has been strongly positive, concluding that the problems constitute a case for improving aid procedures, but not against aid itself.
Readings in World Development
Author: Kartik Chandra RoyPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781594549472
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Indians in Kenya
Author: Sana AiyarPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674425928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Working as merchants, skilled tradesmen, clerks, lawyers, and journalists, Indians formed the economic and administrative middle class in colonial Kenya. In general, they were wealthier than Africans, but were denied the political and economic privileges that Europeans enjoyed. Moreover, despite their relative prosperity, Indians were precariously positioned in Kenya. Africans usually viewed them as outsiders, and Europeans largely considered them subservient. Indians demanded recognition on their own terms. Indians in Kenya chronicles the competing, often contradictory, strategies by which the South Asian diaspora sought a political voice in Kenya from the beginning of colonial rule in the late 1890s to independence in the 1960s. Indians’ intellectual, economic, and political connections with South Asia shaped their understanding of their lives in Kenya. Sana Aiyar investigates how the many strands of Indians’ diasporic identity influenced Kenya’s political leadership, from claiming partnership with Europeans in their mission to colonize and “civilize” East Africa to successful collaborations with Africans to battle for racial equality, including during the Mau Mau Rebellion. She also explores how the hierarchical structures of colonial governance, the material inequalities between Indians and Africans, and the racialized political discourses that flourished in both colonial and postcolonial Kenya limited the success of alliances across racial and class lines. Aiyar demonstrates that only by examining the ties that bound Indians to worlds on both sides of the Indian Ocean can we understand how Kenya came to terms with its South Asian minority.