Wilson Wasike

• BA. MPhil. MA. PhD (Econ)
• Senior Policy Expert, Economic Affairs at The National Treasury of Kenya

Young people can be the drivers of inclusive transformation. Nonetheless, with low levels of financial literacy and even lower employment opportunities, they are faced with severe challenges. Young people and women must be encouraged to seize the opportunities of the digital age and the circular economy to actively participate in the financial sec...

This policy brief discusses Africa’s diversification and trade policies for improved intra- African and international trade, economic and social transformation, as well as promoting win–win G20–Africa economic relations. The brief presents the imperatives to broaden Africa–G20 cooperation through improved trade and restructured global value chains...

This paper provides an overview of the drivers and causes of both household (and individual) and market (macro) level food and nutrition insecurity in Africa. These factors relate to demography, income and food prices, markets, and domestic and global policies. Moreover, climatic risks and conflict and instability serve to accentuate food insecurit...

This study analyses how strengths and weaknesses of economic, societal, political and environmental structures played out during the Covid-19 crisis in Africa since March 2020. Its main aim is to improve evidence on the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic on African countries and, based on that evidence, identify policy implications and for...

This policy brief explores how African countries can leverage digitalization and ICTs to further their goal of industrialization. With increasing digitization of global manufacturing, there is a risk that opportunities for African countries to industrialize will erode. The world economy is already undergoing a trend where historically labor-intensi...

This article was intended to provide information for developing and operationalizing the most suited energy planning model for Kenya. Various energy planning models were reviewed, and general features of the models identified in addition to the advantages and disadvantages of the various models. In conclusion, energy planning for Kenya can be best...

Environmental Strategy and Sustainable Development: The Corporate Challenge for the 21st Century. By Richard Welford. London and New York: Routledge Press, 1995. Pp.xii + 210; index. £40 (hardback); £12.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 415 10551 X and 10552 8 Environment Management and Business Strategy. By Richard Welford and Andrew Gouldson. London: Pitman...

Inadequate infrastructure is a major development challenges in developing countries. This paper applies factor analysis to determine the pattern of access to rural service infrastructure on 158 farming households in the Limpopo Province. The nine components of access to service infrastructure (distance to Polokwane, nearest town, local government,...

Crop rotation technology involving cereals and legumes is beneficial to the overall crop soil environment. However, the profitability of the technology varies spatially by type of farming system. The objective of this study was to assess the economic viability of legume-cereal crop rotation technologies and their adoption potential amongst smallhol...

Virtually all countries, regardless of the degree of scarcity of water, subsidize water for household use (and other uses, including irrigation and industry) and, in many cases, supply it free of charge. This paper reviews two considerations of efficient pricing (i.e. methods of improving cost recovery) of water services in developing countries. A...

This article surveys, at an informal level, some educational concerns as they relate to environmental economics (E.Econ). Rather than tackling the question in greatest generality, the survey takes recourse to an example - the umbilical relationship between human population and the environment. The theme of human dimensions in environmental change h...

In most developing economies, such as Kenya, small-scale private providers of infrastructure services are proving to be more responsive than utilities to needs of poor consumers. They might be delivering water services by tanker, transport services by minivan, or electricity through mini-grids or household solar panels. They make their services aff...

The basic theme of this study is that determination of the economic value of water resources is a necessary condition for rational decision-making and management of these environmental assets, and their associated public goods, in developing countries. The research particularly evaluates the contingent valuation (CV) method as a technique for evalu...