The Economics of Shoe Shining in Nairobi

Elkan, Walter; Ryan, Terry; Mukui, J. T.

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“…There is a statistically significant relationship between concern about job not being lucrative and intentions to quit the shoe-shine business, which implies that some of them intend to quit the job for more lucrative jobs. These factors are consistent with the literature on factors that influence intentions to quit a job (Masroor and Fakir, 2010;Jonathan, Thibeli and Darroux, 2013;Mxenge et al, 2014) and also some empirical findings from the shoe-shine business (Elkan et al, 1982).…”

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confidence: 90%

“…The results in Table 1 showed that the respondents were mostly males, aged between 20 and 29 years and were single, which is consistent with the findings of the study conducted in Nairobi by Elkan et al (1982). The shoe-shiners are males because culturally males are expected to be more adventurous than their female counterparts (Author, 2010;Author, 2012).…”

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confidence: 84%

“…The only substantive paper found on the shoe-shine business in the literature review was an article published by Elkan et al(1982) in Nairobi, Kenya. The authors among other things documented the following information about the shoe-shine business in Nairobi: That the shoe-shine business started in the Nairobi town, particularly in the central streets of Kenyatta Avenue, Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street, and the main customers were the African elites and civil servants engaged in white-collar jobs.…”

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“…The authors among other things documented the following information about the shoe-shine business in Nairobi: That the shoe-shine business started in the Nairobi town, particularly in the central streets of Kenyatta Avenue, Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street, and the main customers were the African elites and civil servants engaged in white-collar jobs. That the City Council Authorities initially employed all sorts of measures including compulsory licensing and occasional police swoop at places where the shoe-shiners operate in order to keep them away from the central business districts where they were considered to be nuisance (Elkan et al, 1982). The shoe-shiners, according to the paper, were aged between 17 and 34 years and were mostly of the Kikuyu ethnic group who dominated the business through the social networks established over the years.…”

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“…In sub-Saharan Africa, studies on the shoe-shine business indicate that it began in the colonial era where people with such skills were engaged by some African elites and civil servants who probably did not have house servants like the expatriates to polish their shoes nor enough time or skills to polish their own shoes (Elkan, Ryan, and Mukui, 1982). The shoe-shine business has no specific definition, it is mostly…”

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Concerns and intentions among young migrants in the shoe-shine business in the Cape Coast Metropolis, Ghana

Tanle¹

2018

Ghana J. Dev. Stud.

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Concerns and intentions among young migrants in the shoe-shine business in the Cape Coast Metropolis, Ghana

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Policy for small‐scale industry: A critique

Elkan¹

1989

J of Intl Development

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This paper focuses on two questions: why small-scale rather than largescale industries, and what policies and measures have been advocated and used to help develop small-scale industry and with what success? We shall conclude that the case for small-scale industry is substantial, but not as overwhelming as is sometimes supposed. and that where small-scale production has clear advantages, the way to further it is not necessarily through special projects or policies which have that object in mind. A development strategy which encourages small-scale agriculture, and macroeconomic policies that are neutral to the scale of industrial production are at least as important, and in many cases more so. than direct intervention in favour of small-scale producers. Some very popular measures of direct intervention are misconceived.Before addressing these questions, we briefly rehearse changes in attitudes towards industrialisation since World War 11. We also attempt to define and assess the importance of small-scale industry in LDC's. The paper draws most of its examples from the Informal Sector, because that is where most small-scale industry is, certainly in Africa. THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEMany LDC's have in the past favoured a strategy of development based on capital intensive large-scale industries. Industry was given preference over agriculture and some countries wanted especially to promote heavy basic industries including steel, cement and heavy engineering. The preference had diverse origins:-the writings of some of the 'pioneers' of development economicsespecially Rosenstein-Rodan and Mandelbaum (Martin) (see Meier and Seers, 1984); a widespread belief that this is what theSoviet Union * Walter Elkan IS prolessor ofeconomlcs at Brunel University. This article wasoriginally written as a Background Paper for the World Bank's 1987 W ( J~[ / L ) c v c 4 p t i m r Reporr. The author received invaluable helpboth with regard to the argument and t o presentation Iron1 ~~~i~ Anderson, Martin Cave.Cyril Ehrlich and Alasdair McBean. and is most grateful to them. as 10 Sheila Forbes and Chris Newnham who typed successive drafts.

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Unternehmerisches Handeln Und Gesellschaftliche Entwicklung

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Policy for small‐scale industry: A critique

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