An employment-targeted economic program for Kenya

Robert Pollin (Professor and founding Co-Director, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, US), Mwangi wa Githinji (University of Massachusetts-Amherst, US) and James Heintz (Associate Research Professor, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts-Amherst, US)

The Kenyan economy has experienced improved economic growth in recent years, and the government has maintained a commitment to generating 500,000 new jobs per year. But the country still faces severe problems of poverty-level employment - people working full-time yet living with their families in poverty. This study develops detailed proposals for greatly expanding decent employment opportunities in Kenya, and to accomplish this in a manner that also creates a wide range of employment and business opportunities, including those for small and medium-sized enterprises, agricultural small holders, commercial banks, and microfinance institutions

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Pollin, Robert ; Gĩthĩnji, Mwangi wa ; Heintz, James
Institutions:	International Poverty Centre (contributor) ; Edward Elgar Publishing (publisher)
Publisher:	Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
Subject:	Kenia \| Kenya \| Arbeitsmarktpolitik \| Labour market policy \| Wirtschaftspolitik \| Economic policy

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (288 pages) illustrations
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	"UNDP country study supported by the International Poverty Centre." Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-262) and index Contents: Brief highlights of major proposals -- Summary of major findings and proposals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Employment conditions and living standards -- 3. Profile of non-agricultural household enterprises -- 4. Labor costs, labor market institutions and employment expansion -- 5. The rural sector: Institutional reform for development -- 6. Investing in roads and water infrastructure -- 7. Monetary policy, inflation control, and interest rates -- 8. Exchange rate policy and foreign trade -- 9. Restructuring Kenya's financial system -- 10. Fiscal policy: How to pay for new pro-employment initiatives -- 11. A restatement of goals and strategies -- Appendix 1: Earnings function for household enterprises -- Appendix 2: Supply shock inflation -- Appendix 3: Exchange rate overvaluation model -- Acronyms -- Bibliography -- Index.
ISBN:	978-1-0353-5264-7 ; 978-1-84844-030-2
Other identifiers:	10.4337/9781035352647 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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