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The Kenyan economy rebounded in 2018 and economic activity in the first quarter of 2019 was healthy, although emerging drought conditions could curtail GDP growth for the remainder of the year. The economy expanded by 6.0 percent in the first three quarters of 2018 compared to 4.7 percent during...
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Kenya is one of the bright spots in Sub-Saharan Africa. With economic growth rates sustained at above 5 percent, Kenya … Kenya remain robust. Ongoing public infrastructure investments will continue to play a 'crowding-in' role, easing transport … availability of inputs. Though oil prices are expected to pick-up over the forecast horizon, Kenya's external sector account will …
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productivity angle.In looking at a set of high-growth economies of the past, the Growth Report 2008 identified common … total factor productivity to growth is on a declining path.The structural shift of the Ghanaian economy into services and … marginally contributes to labor productivity growth.Second, concentration of economic activity in natural resources increase …
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This note takes stock of productivity trends of the Albanian non-agricultural private sector using granular firm …-level data. To understand better the sources of jobs and productivity growth, this note analyzes firm-level data from the … employment and productivity gaps remain. Between 2006 and 2016 the country has seen a doubling of its formal private sector …
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This is the eleventh edition of the Kenya Economic Update. The special focus of this update examines the structural … problems in Kenya's business environment, which compares poorly to regional neighbors' on several manufacturing …-relevant dimensions. The report has four main messages: First, Kenya begins 2015 in a sound economic position. After growing an estimated …
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Kenyan water sector by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) of the World Bank’s Water Global Practice. Kenya’s new … Constitution (Constitution of Kenya 2010) came into effect in 2013, declaring water supply and sanitation services a basic right …
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-country pilot carried out in Ghana, Honduras, Kenya, and Nigeria. Section 1 of the paper provides the general background within …
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structured around the key themes that are relevant to Kenya's disclosure environment …
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and gradually return to growth of above 5 percent. The near-term economic outlook for Kenya, as elsewhere, remains …
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least ten of the other SDGs. This assessment of Kenya's ID system was undertaken under the umbrella of the World Bank … also financing the Kenya Transparency and Communications Infrastructure (KTCIP) project to scale up digital inclusion and e … Kenya May 18-28. Its broad objective was to better understand the nature and capabilities of Kenya's ID system, its role in …
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