Youth Polytechnics and HIT: What Future for Self-Employment in Kenya?

The research work that informs this paper was done in late 1980s and early 1990s. The paper speaks essentially to the policy issues and employment context of that period, primarily in Kenya but to some extent elsewhere in Africa as well. Be that as it may, much that I say in this paper remains of considerable relevance to today's conversations about skill acquisition, employment creation and self-employment.

I have so far not sought to publish the contents of this paper in any journal. So it has remained a manuscript. Nevertheless, I have lately thought that it would be useful to share its contents with a wider readership than the occasional allusions or references to parts of it in my Work and Industry class. So I offer it here:


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