October 2011

Water and politics in Africa: The need for regional cooperation

  This paper examines the need for regional cooperation in water resources management in Africa. The earth is a water planet made up of 70% water, but the crucial fact is that freshwater constitutes only 3%, 99% of which is locked in polar icecaps, glaciers and far too deep underground, leaving humanity with only 0.3% with which to quench its ever increasing thirsts. At the country level, extreme variability...

Author(s): H.A. Saliu, E.O. Oriola and I .P. Ifabiyi

October 2011

An empirical investigation of selected strategy variables on firms performance: A study of supply chain management in large private manufacturing firms in Kenya

  This paper focuses on the joint effect of selected strategy variables on performance of large private manufacturing firms of the supply chains in Kenya. To guide the study, two specific objectives have been used namely: 1) to determine the independent effects of core competencies, strategy, strategy implementation and core capabilities on firms performance, 2) to determine the joint effect of core...

Author(s): Awino Zachary Bolo