LibGuides: Country Information: Kenya: Country Overview & Culture

News

Business Source Complete
Search this database for articles in 1,200 business journals, magazines, and trade journals. Also provides industry reports, country profiles, and company SWOT analyses. Business Source Complete is often the best place to start your research.

Provides full text or pdf articles from the Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, Administrative Science Quarterly, California Management Review, and the Journal of Business Ethics.

Contains articles from scholarly and trade journals, newspapers, and magazines as well as industry and company reports
To find news about Kenya:
- Enter Kenya in the search box and select GE Geographic Terms under Select a Field
- Select Newspaper and/or Periodical under Publication type
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Factiva
Aggregated news from national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications, and transcripts. Factiva includes access to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Barron's. Content is available in 22 languages. Factiva also houses succinct company profiles, Factiva's indexing tools and more.

Broad variety of news sources
Select Switch Factiva at the top of the screen
Go to Search Builder expand the Region field and search for Kenya.
Add additional search criteria as desired and click Search
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Economist.com
The Economist offers a full range of analysis, including special reports, data journalism, podcasts, films and audio versions.
Access World News
Search here for news from a broad list of sources, including the Richmond Times Dispatch and Daily Progress. Does not contain the business specific features of such news databases as Factiva and Lexis Nexis Academic.

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Country Overview

World Factbook
Turn to the World Factbook for information on 267 countries. Provides background and data related to history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and international relations for each country.

Use the dropdown menu to select Kenya
Offers basic information on the country's government, economy, and society
Published by the CIA

Culture

GoinGlobal
Go here for current job and internship listings and country career guides.

Though GoinGlobal focuses primarily on career search resources, each country and city profile does have information on the culture and business etiquette
Contains profiles of Kenya (click on Country Career Guides)
Explore the Living There and General Resources section of each profile
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Business and the Economy

OECD i-Library
Explore this site for statistical databases, reports, and 19 periodicals published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The Economic Surveys, issued biennially for many countries, provide tables and discussion on overall economic health and social conditions.

Browse by country or theme
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Country Commercial Guides
Learn more about market conditions, opportunities, regulations, and business customs for over 125 countries. These reports are prepared by trade and industry experts at US embassies worldwide.

Information on the business landscape, trade regulations, investment climate, and political & economic environment of 125 countries
Explore the guide on Kenya

Business Source Complete
Search this database for articles in 1,200 business journals, magazines, and trade journals. Also provides industry reports, country profiles, and company SWOT analyses. Business Source Complete is often the best place to start your research.

Provides full text or pdf articles from the Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, Administrative Science Quarterly, California Management Review, and the Journal of Business Ethics.

Consult the latest Kenya Country Monitor from Marketline
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EMIS (Connect to Darden VPN)

On the search page, look for the Markets tab.
Go to the Search for an industry or country profile search box and search for Kenya.
Select Kenya and view the Kenya country/region profile.

PESTLE Reports

Business Source Complete
Search for Marketline Country Reports this will include a PESTLE analysis section, you can also search by Marketline Country reports and then country name.

Provides full text or pdf articles from the Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, Administrative Science Quarterly, California Management Review, and the Journal of Business Ethics.
EMIS (Connect to Darden VPN)
Search for PESTLE and country name in the main search box within EMIS, these are also Marketline country reports. Please note that EMIS does not carry a comprehensive list of MarketLine Country Reports you may need to consult Business Source Complete.

Travel Guides

Kenya - Culture Smart! by Jane Barsby
ISBN: 9781857338584

Publication Date: 2017-04-01

Statistics & Data

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

"The Bureau shall be the principal agency of the Government for collecting, analysing and disseminating statistical data in Kenya and shall be the custodian of official statistical information."

IMF eLibrary Data (International Monetary Fund)

Contains economic time series data
Datasets include International Financial Statistics, Direction of Trade, Balance of Payments, and Government Finance Statistics
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World DataBank (World Bank)

Provides social and economic statistics for key indicators for each country as well as regions in some cases
Consists of several individual databases with overlap in indicators; databases include:
- World Development Indicators
- Education Statistics
- Gender Statistics
- Poverty and Equity Database
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UN Data (United Nations)
Students and researchers needing economic and socio-demographic data should consider looking at this database. It provides more than 450 statistical time series for countries from around the world.

Includes economic and socio-demographic data
Use the Advanced Search function to search for data across a range of UN databases