News

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has called for reforms that will broaden fiscal revenue, formalize the informal sector, deepen financial markets, and maximize the country's human resource dividend ...
Standard Chartered Managing Director and CEO, Kenya and Africa, Kariuki Ngari, said Kenyan investors are well-positioned to ...
I first began talking with Wilson about 2 years ago, when both of our organizations launched. We’ve shared our vision for the future of Kenya, fantastic conversations, and some beers. There is no one ...
Nyakang'o disclosed that Kenya's three cities (Nairobi, Kisumu and Nakuru) were among the devolved units with the lowest development absorption rates. "Counties that had the lowest absorption rates of ...
NAIROBI, October 31, 2019 – As Kenya’s digital economy propels the country’s economic growth, a new World Bank economic update says more needs to be done to prepare citizens and businesses for the ...
Kenya’s foreign reserves, currently standing at $9.2 billion—equivalent to 4.7 months of import cover—have further fortified the country’s economic resilience against external shocks.
Additionally, Kenya’s foreign exchange reserves have increased by $2.4 billion to stand at $7.97 billion (about 4.4 months of import cover), thus giving the economy a robust buffer against ...
Kenya’s impressive economic gains have ushered in large investments from multinational companies, yielding a boom in infrastructure development. High-rise buildings are mushrooming everywhere ...
The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights noted in its 2016 periodic review of Kenya that “there is a large amount of illicit financial flows and tax avoidance” and ...
Kenya is ripe for socio-economic transformation, but the country leaders are throwing the country deeper and deeper into debt and creating chronically uneven development.
Economic unease in Kenya came to a head this week when thousands of protesters stormed parliament to protest a new finance bill—now withdrawn by the president—that would have raised taxes.