About the research group
Almost half of the Kenyan population lives on less than US$1.25 per day, partly as a result of being employed in unproductive and informal work. The project ‘Multipliers for Employment Creation: The IT Sector in Kenya’ will investigate how an innovative sector such as IT can stimulate productive (formal) employment within the country. It will do so by looking into the success factors enabling small IT firms (so-called ‘incubators’), which typically start in the informal sector, to take off, generate organizational growth, and become formal-sector employers of women and youth.