Pending bills, whether at the County or National level, are not only a cash-flow issue but an economic-governance problem....
A platform that publishes tenders but leaves suppliers waiting indefinitely solves only part of the problem....
Kenya's agricultural debate has long centred on familiar commodities: maize and food security, tea and coffee exports, and sugarcane....
Kenya has no balanced-budget rule, however, the Public Finance Management Act sets out two at-risk fiscal rules....
Both Sifuna's promise to “cut waste” and Ruto's pledge to consolidate face the same problem: neither is moving the needle....
During the presidential debate, Ruto said taxes were driving Kenya’s high fuel prices and that his government would lower them....
The Chronicle will hold Sifuna to the analysis he has promised. When it lands, five things will tell us whether it is a budget or a slogan....
Politics runs on promises. Governing runs on ledgers. This issue of The Chronicle Weekly is about the distance between the two....
Kenya needs investment that can finance productive infrastructure assets without placing unsustainable pressure on public finances....
Our argument is that Kenya's courts are doing better at the work they control and worse at the work that decides whether people trust them....