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Why pork and tall buildings are top economic growth indicators in counties

Apartment building. [iStockphoto]

Most of the economic data in Kenya is at the national level. Only a few counties can give data on their economic growth, inflation and unemployment rates or even productivity levels.

Yet with devolution, counties were supposed to be centres of economic growth. How can we invest there without data?

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