KCA University

Recent papers from KCA University

1. SwahiliAI: Building an Open-Source Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem for East African Languages2026
2. Built Where It Is Used2026
3. Skills Should Not Depend on Who Can Pay: A conditions-of-access framework for digital learning in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa: connectivity, affordability, inclusion and instructional quality2026
4. We Measure What Changes: A proportionate evidence standard for learning and skills programmes delivered by small providers in low-resource settings2026
5. Financial Development and Economic Development in Africa: The Moderating Role of Institutional QualityEconomies · 2026
6. Financial soundness and operational efficiency of Islamic banks in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from a bias-corrected DEA and panel regression frameworkAfrican Journal of Economic and Management Studies · 2026
7. Precision Prevention for Health: The Global Alliance Framework for the Promotion of Physical ActivitySports Medicine · 2026
8. Bank size as a mediating mechanism between financial soundness and operational efficiency: evidence from Islamic banks in sub-Saharan AfricaAfrican Journal of Economic and Management Studies · 2026
9. A Hybrid FIGARCH–LSTM Early Warning System for Volatility Regime Transitions in a Frontier Market: Evidence from KenyaJournal of risk and financial management · 2026
10. Financial Development and Economic Development in Africa: A Systematic Review on the Mediating Role of FinTechJournal of risk and financial management · 2026
11. The influence of capital inflows on environmental quality in Sub-Saharan AfricaCogent Economics & Finance · 2026
12. Formalising informal trade: redefining Kenya's micro, small, and medium enterprise standards and regulatory environmentFrontiers in Behavioral Economics · 2026
13. Influence of Environmental Practices on Sustainable Development of the Sub-Saharan African CountriesOpen Research Africa · 2026
14. Trade Efficiency and Environmental Quality in Sub-Saharan AfricaJournal of Sustainability · 2026
15. Relational capability and pluralistic governance in urban sustainability: Evidence from Nairobi’s solid waste management systemWaste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy · 2026
16. Multi-Head Self-Attention Fusion Network for Enhanced Multi-Class Crop Disease Classification2025
17. Debt as Maternal Emotional Work: Financialized Caregiving in Nairobi's Digital Credit EconomyGender Work and Organization · 2026
18. Horizon- and Regime-Dependent Performance of GARCH-Type Models: Evidence from Volatility Forecasting in a Frontier MarketInternational Journal of Financial Studies · 2026
19. Do board structure and director compensation influence financial reporting quality? Evidence from nonfinancial listed firms in Anglophone Sub-Saharan AfricaAfrican Journal of Economic and Management Studies · 2026
20. Intervening Influence of Financial Development on the Relationship Between Sustainability Practices and Sustainable Development of the Sub-Saharan African CountriesJournal of risk and financial management · 2026