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It was the ever-so-witty Mark Twain who first said there are three levels of lies – lies, damn lies and statistics. And in the past few weeks, developments in Kenya have conspired to lend credence to this age-old quip. First came the rebasing of our Gross Domestic Product.
I’m not an economist, so let me try to break down for you how we went to bed one day a struggling, low-income (you might say third-world) economy and woke up the following day as a middle-income, happy-go-lucky economy.
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