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An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya

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  • Robert Pollin
  • Mwangi wa Githinji

Abstract

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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  • Robert Pollin & Mwangi wa Githinji, 2008. "An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 13219.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eebook:13219
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    1. Robert Pollin, 2008. "Considerations on Interest Rate Exogeneity," Working Papers wp177, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
    2. Robert Pollin & Gerald Epstein & James Heintz, 2009. "Alternativas Favorables al Crecimiento para Políticas Monetarias y Financieras en África Subsahariana," Policy Research Brief 6, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.
    3. Epstein, Gerald., 2009. "Rethinking monetary and financial policy : practical suggestions for monitoring financial stability while generating employment and poverty reduction," ILO Working Papers 994344393402676, International Labour Organization.
    4. James Heintz & Robert Pollin, 2008. "Targeting Employment Expansion, Economic Growth and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Outlines of an Alternative Economic Programme for the Region," Published Studies targeting_employment_expa, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
    5. Wamuthenya, W.R., 2010. "Determinants of urban job attainment in Kenya across time," ISS Working Papers - General Series 19918, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.
    6. Wamuthenya, W.R., 2010. "Economic crisis and women’s employment rate in a Sub-Saharan African country," ISS Working Papers - General Series 19427, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.
    7. repec:ilo:ilowps:434439 is not listed on IDEAS
    8. World Bank, 2008. "Kenya : Accelerating and Sustaining Inclusive Growth," World Bank Publications - Reports 18927, The World Bank Group.
    9. James Heintz & Léonce Ndikumana, 2010. "Working Paper 108 - Is there a Case for Formal Inflation Targeting in Sub-Saharan Africa?," Working Paper Series 245, African Development Bank.
    10. Epstein, Gerald. & Heintz, James. & Ndikumana, Léonce. & Chang, Grace., 2010. "Employment, poverty and economic development in Madagascar : a macroeconomic framework," ILO Working Papers 994554463402676, International Labour Organization.
    11. James Heintz & Léonce Ndikumana, 2010. "Is There a Case for Formal Inflation Targeting in Sub-Saharan Africa?," Working Papers wp218, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
    12. Robert Pollin, 2008. "Is Full Employment Possible Under Globalization? (revised)," Working Papers wp141, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
    13. Rick Rowden, 2010. "Poverty reduction is not development," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(126), pages 503-516, December.
    14. Gerald Epstein, 2009. "Rethinking Monetary and Financial Policy: Practical suggestions for monitoring financial stability while generating employment and poverty reduction," Published Studies ilo_epstein11_09, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
    15. Nidhiya Menon & Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, 2013. "Credit and self-employment," Chapters, in: Deborah M. Figart & Tonia L. Warnecke (ed.), Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life, chapter 22, pages 359-377, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    16. Wambui R. Wamuthenya, 2010. "Determinants of Employment in the Formal and Informal Sectors of the Urban Areas of Kenya," Working Papers 194, African Economic Research Consortium, Research Department.
    17. Gerald Epstein & James Heintz & Léonce Ndikumana & Grace Chang, 2011. "Employment, Poverty and Economic Development in Madagascar," Published Studies ndikumana_ilo2010, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
    18. Matu, Jeffrey Ben, 2008. "Attracting Microfinance Investment Funds: Promoting Microfinance Growth through Increased Investments in Kenya," MPRA Paper 12084, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    19. World Bank, 2009. "Kenya - Poverty and Inequality Assessment : Executive Summary and Synthesis Report," World Bank Publications - Reports 3081, The World Bank Group.

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    Keywords

    Development Studies; Economics and Finance;

    JEL classification:

    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development

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