Costs are increasing in ways that can quickly erode the benefit of a pay raise, especially for people with little flexibility in how they spend....
A platform that publishes tenders but leaves suppliers waiting indefinitely solves only part of the problem....
Kenya‘s inflation reached the 6.8% level in September, four months earlier than the central bank's forecast. ...
The disagreement is political, but the underlying question is institutional, and vital to building trust in Kenya's governance....
Ruto’s message shifts the debate from attracting foreign capital to changing the rules that determine how Africa’s own savings are invested....
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....