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An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya Robert Pollin

An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya By Robert Pollin

An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya by Robert Pollin


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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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An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya Summary

An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya by Robert Pollin

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.

An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya Reviews

'. . . an important and necessary contribution. The authors make several innovative departures from standard thinking about macroeconomic policies, both in terms of goals and strategies. While the study is focussed on Kenya, much of the approach and most of the policy conclusions have direct relevance for a wide range of developing countries. . . this is an extremely valuable book, because it provides a clear, systematic and context-driven set of proposals for macroeconomic policies and development strategy that is directed to the generation of decent employment. This is something that is frequently talked about as the desired alternative strategy, but elaborations of this idea to make it practical and feasible are rare. This book is therefore an important weapon in the struggle to bring about more progressive macroeconomics as well as more inclusive development.'

-- Jayati Ghosh, Review of Radical Political Economics
'Three decades after the International Labor Organization's ground-breaking study, Employment, Incomes and Equality, Profs. Pollin, Mwangi and Heintz re-open the path with 21st century economic analyses and instruments. Kenya's policymakers would be unwise not to study these ideas, and then study them again.'

About Robert Pollin

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

Table of Contents

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

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CIN1848440308G
9781848440302
1848440308
An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya by Robert Pollin
Used - Good
Hardback
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
20080630
288
N/A
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