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IGC’s engagement and research in Kenya combines policy engagement with world-class research focused on firm productivity, functioning cities, accessible energy, state effectiveness, and ICT to improve resource allocation.

Featured content

Tracking price dynamics during a pandemic in Kenya and Uganda

Christopher Woodruff, George Kinyanjui, Verena Wiedemann 31 Dec 2020
Project

Smart containment and social protection: Lessons from Kenya’s COVID-19 fight

Sarah Logan
Blog

Liquidity constraints, presumptive taxation, and tax compliance: Experimental evidence from Kenya

Lorenzo Casaburi, Dina D. Pomeranz 31 Oct 2018
Project

Tracking constraints to entrepreneurship in Africa

Tavneet Suri, Louis Dorval 30 Jun 2017
Project

The social and economic impacts of electrification: Evidence from Kenya

Edward Miguel, Catherine Wolfram, Ken Lee 30 Jun 2017
Project

Study provides fresh insights into the benefits of mobile money in Kenya

Sarah Logan
Blog

IGC engages with key government stakeholders primarily in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives.

IGC has funded several projects on topics including the impact of interest rate caps, constraints to entrepreneurship in Africa, agricultural trade, social and economic impacts of electrification, microenterprise development, and the impact of ethnic favouritism on service delivery.

IGC Policy Economists support the engagement from London.

Contact

Email: [email protected] 
Twitter: @IGC_Kenya

Featured Researchers

Tavneet Suri

Associate Professor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kamal Bhattacharya

Chief Innovation Officer, Safaricom

Edward Miguel

Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, University of California - Berkeley

Catherine Wolfram

Professor of Business Administration, University of California - Berkeley
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Asking better questions

Amisha Miller, Saurabh Lall, Markus Goldstein, Joao Montalvao

Working paper

Miller et al Working paper February 2024
Matching digital service export jobs in Kenya

Ignacio Rodriguez Hurtado, Laura Wheeler, Susannah Katherine Orkin, Robert Garlick, Caroline Kariuki

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Data-driven learning and firm performance: Experimental evidence from SMEs in Kenya

Anik Ashraf, Elizabeth Lyons

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Optimising labour sourcing for technology workers in small businesses

Ignacio Rodriguez Hurtado, Robert Garlick, Susannah Katherine Orkin, Laura Wheeler

Project

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How food prices changed during COVID-19: Evidence from Kenya and Uganda

George Kinyanjui, Doreen Rubatsimbira, Verena Wiedemann

Blog

Non-tariff barriers and regional integration in the East African Community

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Matthew Grant, Meredith Startz, Eleanor Wiseman

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Targeting consulting services to high-growth entrepreneurs

Golvine de Rochambeau, Vittorio Bassi

Project

Trade, informality, and corruption: Evidence from small-scale traders in Kenya

Eleanor Wiseman

Blog

Unequal access to big contracts: Evidence from the AGPO Programme in Kenya

Golvine de Rochambeau

Project

Westlands District Nairobi, Kenya
Tracking prices during COVID-19 in Kenya and Uganda

George Kinyanjui, Doreen Rubatsimbira, Verena Wiedemann

Policy brief