Although a growing body of literature maintains that the construction industry plays a significant role in the economic development world-over, the extent of its regulation may, however, undermine the objectives of sustainable urban development. This study, as a result, investigates the factors influencing quality assurance within the building construction industry in Kenya, a case study of Kis...

mation-processing and communications; (ii) that the national information infrastructure will determine the pace of progress in that overall process; and (iii), that these developments in the digitization and NII arenas will form multimedia as the 'break-through industry'. Around 1992, America witnessed an emerging consensus on three specific points: namely, (i) that digitization is powering a t...

In a sharp turnaround from their fortunes in the 1990-91 recession, banks came through the 2001 recession reasonably well. A look at industry and economy-wide developments in the intervening years suggests that banks fared better largely because of more effective risk management. In addition, they benefited from a decline in short-term interest rates and the relative mildness of the 2001 downturn.