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Last updated:
January 29, 2008
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We are pleased to announce the publication of the IPC-supported Full National Report, “An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya”. The authors are Robert Pollin, Mwangi wa Githinji and James Heintz of the Political Economy Research Institute. The focus of the report is to develop effective policies for greatly expanding decent employment opportunities in Kenya. In the process, they counter orthodox policies that focus on lowering formal-sector workers’ wages and benefits and making the labour market more flexible. They also criticize the anti-growth bias of monetary policies that maintain low single-digit inflation. Instead, they emphasize the importance of 1) institutional reforms in agriculture targeted at smallholders 3) productivity-enhancing public investment in infrastructure and 2) providing incentives to the financial system to channel resources to development purposes, such as providing subsidies to commercial banks to loan to microfinance institutions.
See the related IPC publications on Kenya: the recent Working Paper #40, “Addressing the Employment-Poverty Nexus in Kenya” and Country Study #6, “Expanding Decent Employment in Kenya”.
This Full National Report is part of the ongoing IPC research programme on “Economic Policies, MDGs and Poverty”. You are also invited to browse the IPC website containing all Full National Reports on Economic Strategies.
