An estimated 2.5 million Kenyans which is over 11 percent of the country’s adult population currently use tobacco thus informing the need to take strong action to reduce tobacco use. Therefore, this study conducted a gender analysis on drivers of cigarette smoking in Kenya. The study heavily relied on data from Kenya Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2014. Specifically, two-part model was used to establish the effect of demographic and psychosocial drivers on both smoking participation and intensity among men and women. The study found that price of cigarette had an insignificant effect on men participation in smoking while age and years spent in education had a significant and negative effect on women smoking participation. Smoking rules inside home had a negative effect on women participation in smoking while smoking policy at indoor work place had a negative and significant effect on men smoking participation. Overally, cigarette tax adjustment had a negative and significant effect on both men and women participation in smoking. Work status had a negative and very significant effect on both men and women smoking intensity. The findings, therefore, confirmed the significant effect of smoking policy and cigarette tax adjustment on both smoking participation and smoking intensity among men and women.
Purpose: following the Resource Based View Theory, this study explored whether firm innovation mediated the upshot of organization capital on firm performance in Kenyan insurance firms. Design / Methodology: the research surveyed 49 insurance firms in Kenya using explanatory research design. The hypotheses testing used Structural Equation Modelling. Findings: The outcome revealed that organization capital positively influences firm innovativeness and that firm innovation partially arbitrates the association between organization capital and performance of the firm. Practical implication: the outcome of the research suggested that for insurance firms to be innovative organization capital should be enhanced in terms of availability in the systems, databases, files, licenses or patents which is termed very important for implementation of innovation since such knowledge is the result of humdrum routine of employees, reminds usage process, flexible in usage for new contexts and more significantly it improves employees technology skills thus resulting to a better performance by the firm.
This study analyzes the impact of beans produced under joint multiple agricultural technologies (Improved beans variety, soil carbon management, integrated pest control, and use of compost manure) on nutrition outcome of stunting, underweight, and wasting in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Adoption of technologies in East Africa has been in isolation only focusing on single technologies. However, farmers typically adopt joint multiple agricultural technologies as complements or substitutes thus technologies to be adopted dependent on early technology choices. The objective of the study was to analyze the impact of the nutrition outcome variables in terms of stunting, wasting, and underweight for the best joint multiple agricultural technology combinations as a set of explanatory variables (z). This study adopts the multinomial endogenous switching regression model to correct for the selection bias and endogeneity. Results indicate that joint multiple agricultural technologies had a significant impact on the overall nutrition outcome in East Africa households. It is concluded that households in East Africa rarely use a single agricultural technology but rather a combination of different joint technologies in order to improve their nutrition outcome. The findings recommend that households should adopt joint multiple agricultural technologies rather than focusing on single technologies.
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