Expand tax bracket to help pull many Kenyans out of poverty

News that Kenya’s economy had strongly rebounded beyond projections by the government, the Central Bank of Kenya and economists was greeted with mixed reactions.

The overall size of the economy -- calculated by summing up all goods and services produced at a given period, or gross domestic product (GDP) -- expanded by 6.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2018, signaling better standards of living for Kenyans.