An economy does not distribute its gains equally simply because government announces an ambitious programme....
Governments write policy for economies. They are elected by households. That is the gap the Ruto administration had four years to close....
The failures remain deeply felt, and those unfinished promises may ultimately decide whether Kenyans give William Ruto another five years....
The Ruto presidency therefore deserves credit for something previous governments have often struggled to demonstrate: implementation. ...
Kenya has reached a point where changing the people in charge will not, by itself, change the country's fundamental constraints....
The problem is that the distance between the Kenya being imagined and the Kenya that must finance that ambition is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore....
Manifestos will tell Kenyans what politicians want to do, while the budget will tell them what the state can afford to do....
The first explanation is that inflation measures the rate at which prices are rising, not whether prices have returned to previous levels....
The KNBS report offers reason for cautious optimism: Economic growth, by itself, does not automatically create prosperity....
KRA hit Sh2.844 trillion in FY2025/26 through enforcement, not new levies. We break down what's driving the record year, and why the easy gains may be over....