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To tap digital economy, let us support it
(The Nation Newspaper, 2021-06)What you need to know: Local innovations are the right response to the growing dominance by multinationals. With the right policy and support, this country can churn out its own multi-billion-shilling techpreneurs and ... -
Pairing taxpayers might be solution to evasion of tax
(Business Daily, 2022-04)It takes two to tango; that’s so true in business. Every transaction has two parties involved. Every seller must have a buyer, every employee must have an employer and every service provider must have a service recipient. ... -
Let’s harvest water during rainy season
(Business Daily, 2023-03)We are a few days to the onset of the much-awaited long rains. The weatherman has issued a warning that the rains may be below average. This is disheartening news after a period of prolonged drought, but the encouraging ... -
Make housing affordable across Kenya
(The Nation Newspaper, 2020-10)What you need to know: Construction loans are much preferred. Incentives available to mortgagors should be extended to construction loans. Construction loans, which are essentially personal loans, are secured against ... -
Tax Education ties that can grow compliance.
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Kenya’s economic potential points to a country capable of self-sustenance
(The Standard, 2021)Covid-19 has extensively suppressed world economies over the past one year -Kenya’s included. Thousands have had to contend with substantial pay cuts as their employers endeavored to align to the tough times. In a report ... -
Transfer Pricing in Kenya
(The Professional Journal of kasneb, 2020-05)Head office, parent company, divisions, branches or subsidiaries of a firm trading amongst themselves will invariably set the prices at which goods and services will be exchanged. The prices need not be the same as the ... -
This tech can tap every collectible coin
(Business Daily, 2023-04-12)The electronic tax invoice management system (e-Tims) that the Kenya Revenue Authority recently rolled out is touted to be the game-changer in tax administration. It allows VAT-registered traders to connect real-time to ... -
Electric buses offer a way out of the transport chaos
(Business Daily, 2022-07-06)The 14th day of every month is a day all Kenyans have to hope against hope. They are all ears as the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) announces the monthly fuel price review, with the expectation of a ... -
Stability in tax policy is key to investor confidence.
(The Accountant, 2022-07-26)Every Second Thursday in the Month of June is a special day in Kenya’s fiscal calendar. This is the day everyone waits for anxiously. It is a day for surprises and reliefs, for hits and misses, for the goodies and losses- ... -
Correlates of compliance with recommended levels of physical activity in children
(Springer, 2017)he purpose of this study was to describe children’s daily compliance with moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) recommendations across a week in different parts of the world, and to identify individual- and ... -
Thresholds of physical activity associated with obesity by level of sedentary behavior in children: Physical activity, sedentary behavior, and obesity
(Research Gate, 2018)It is unknown whether moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) thresholds for obesity should be adapted depending on level of sedentary behavior in children. -
Relationships Between Outdoor Time, Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Body Mass Index in Children: A 12-Country Study
(Pub Med, 2019)This study investigated the relationship between outdoor time and physical activity (PA), sedentary time (SED), and body mass index z scores among children from 12 lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income, and high-income ... -
Outdoor time and dietary patterns in children around the world
(Pub Med, 2018)Whether outdoor time is linked to dietary patterns of children has yet to be empirically tested. The objective of this study was to examine the association between outdoor time and dietary patterns of children from 12 ... -
Functionality of Elderly Persons: A Comparison Between Institutionalized and Non – Institutionalized Elderly Persons in Nairobi City County, in Kenya
(Science Publishing Group, 2018)This study compared the Functionality of Institutionalized elderly persons and that of the elderly persons living with their family and or community members using the Modified Barthel Index. Two hundred and seventy elderly ... -
Physical Education Classes, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Behavior in Children
(Pub Med, 2018)This study aimed to examine the associations between participation frequency in physical education (PE) classes and objective measures of physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) in children from 12 countries at ... -
Inequality in physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep duration and risk of obesity in children: a 12-country study
(Pub Med, 2018-06)Studies examining associations between movement behaviors (i.e. physical activity, sedentary behavior and sleep duration) and obesity focus on average values of these movement behaviors, despite important within-country ... -
Screen-based sedentary behavior and adiposity among school children: Results from International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE) - Kenya
(PLOS, 2018)Background High levels of sedentary behaviours have been independently associated with several negative health indicators, including obesity. Screen time (ST) is often used as a contributing measure of sedentary time. It ... -
Development and convergent validity of new self-administered questionnaires of active transportation in three African countries: Kenya, Mozambique and Nigeria.
(BMC Public Health, 2018)Background There is currently a rapid physical activity transition taking place in developing countries that includes a decrease in active transportation. Building on findings from an earlier systematic review, this paper ... -
Epidemiological Transition in Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in Children
(Human Kinetics, 2019-05)To determine if children’s moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary time varied across levels of household income in countries at different levels of Human Development Index (HDI), consistent with the ...