Kenya’s Participation in Regional and Global Trade Arrangements

Ikiara, Gerrishon K.

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“…The weak domestic linkages may be related to similar reasons as those for the Kenyan case as Lall (2005) reports that the average minimum wage in Lesotho's textile sector range between US$ 60 to US$ 75 per month and the experienced employees receive up to US$ 250 per month. Ikiara and Ndirangu (2004) focus on the issue of lack of domestic supply of textile materials to textile manufacturing firms. Providing evidence from Kenya Ikiara and Ndirangu (2004) analyse the potential effect of the 30th September 2004 end period set in the AGOA legislation for SSA states' sourcing textile materials from third party nations as inputs to their AGOA eligible articles.…”

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“…Ikiara and Ndirangu (2004) focus on the issue of lack of domestic supply of textile materials to textile manufacturing firms. Providing evidence from Kenya Ikiara and Ndirangu (2004) analyse the potential effect of the 30th September 2004 end period set in the AGOA legislation for SSA states' sourcing textile materials from third party nations as inputs to their AGOA eligible articles. They also examine Kenya's local capacity in supplying the materials after 2004.…”

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“…Meanwhile, Edwards and Lawrence (2015) note that when MFA quotas were lifted Asian producers -China in particular -moved into the markets in which AGOA sub-Sahara African states had specialised. Ikiara and Ndirangu (2004) suggest that the phasing out of the MFA which essentially eliminates quotas on textiles exports into the developed nations' markets by WTO will negatively affect SSA states while insisting that the economic prospects of participating SSA states in post-AGOA period are bleak. This would be due to competition coming from producers such as China.…”

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Contributions of African Growth and Opportunity Act to International Trade of Sub-Saharan Africa

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The relative failure of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to access the benefits of global trade despite several attempts at a variety of international economic models is common knowledge. This paper subjects the trade relations between the United States and SSA within the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) to a historical, interpretive, and analytical examination to ascertain the contributions of the preferential trade agreement to international trade of Sub-Saharan African countries. Paper finds that the two-way increases in the trade of the U.S. and SSA under AGOA safeguard the continuous access of the U.S. to cheap produce of African countries. The paper concludes that SSA countries would continue to depend on preferential trade agreements for their international trade.

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“…Amongst those I interview, the narrative of the arena of development is tied to that of national political reform. In their recollection, the regime of President Daniel Moi maintained a vice-like grip on the operation of national monopolies (Akumu, 1999;Hornsby, 2012;Ikiara et al, 1999;Park, 2017). Actors in the arena are my contemporaries and we therefore have similar recollections of the Moi period.…”

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2023

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This PhD research thesis offers an historicised account of Silicon Savannah, a digital technology entrepreneurship arena in Nairobi, Kenya. Silicon Savannah is an opportunity to study the appropriation of technology innovation and commercialisation models in a lower income, developing economy. Fieldwork took place over 2015-6, a period when this embryonic 'arena of development ' (Jorgensen and Sorensen, 1999) is subject to scrutiny about its high, but largely unverified, hyped expectations. As a result, this thesis dwells on how actors develop strategies to adopt and adapt to processes over which they have no discretion.Actors in Silicon Savannah individually and collectively develop strategies and gaming systems for enacting legitimacy and attracting resources. The analytical frame reveals a dimension of persistent colonial modality inherent in the practice of global capitalism of which the digital economy and ICT developmental projects are a part. This is indicated in policy discourses of digital entrepreneurship that disclaim alternatives and multiplicities, and take for granted that there is a standardised typology of progress. The result is a paradox where entrepreneurs are incentivised to demonstrate alignment with discourses that might not reflect their experience.The study aims to produce a 'view from Nairobi' by integrating the interpretive frameworks of the subjects of the study with the researcher's analysis. Thus, it relies on ethnographic interviews and observations, and historical reconstruction using resources preserved in internet-based repositories like weblogs, emails and social media. Through this empirical work, this study makes several contributions to knowledge: First, it produces a rich historical account of Silicon Savannah as a zone of friction between ecologies of knowledge and practice. In this way, it is conversant with ethnographies of policy implementation and academic research interested in interactions between received prescriptions and local milieu.Second, it its discussion of actors' strategic use of 'narrative infrastructures' (Deuten and Rip, 2000) and engages with the use of narrative in the production of and practices in arenas of 7.3 Performative Technology Entrepreneurship.

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“…Sur les 27 entreprises, quatre seulement ont déclaré réaliser des études de faisabilité afin de commercialiser leurs produits plus efficacement, et une seulement avait mis en place un programme de R-D (tableau C.7). Ces constats corroborent l'opinion exposée dans Ikiara et al (1999), selon laquelle les entreprises kenyanes n'effectuent quasiment aucune étude de marché. L'encadré 4.3 décrit le cas d'une entreprise qui déroge à cette passivité.…”

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Kenya’s Participation in Regional and Global Trade Arrangements

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Contributions of African Growth and Opportunity Act to International Trade of Sub-Saharan Africa

Contributions of African Growth and Opportunity Act to International Trade of Sub-Saharan Africa

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