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Dennis Kabaara

Bane of Kenya Kwanza's Big Five agenda as regime enters second 18-month phase

Today's tragedy is we miss tomorrow's promise in Ruto's transformation agenda which, on paper, is rather clever in framing and structuring.

By Dennis Kabaara 16 days ago

Bane of Kenya Kwanza's Big Five agenda as regime enters second 18-month phase

Kenya Kwanza agenda lacks public buy-in

Kenya Kwanza agenda lacks public buy-in

By Dennis Kabaara 2 months ago

Kenya in 2023: A case of being in motion without any movement

Kenya in 2023: A case of being in motion without any movement

By Dennis Kabaara 3 months ago

Forget dialogue, cost of living not about to come down any time soon

Forget dialogue, cost of living not about to come down any time soon

By Dennis Kabaara 3 months ago

Began as national dialogue, ended up an incomplete elite settlement

It is difficult to understand what Parliament is expected to do with the recommendations on electoral reform, multiparty democracy, new political positions or fresh politically-inspired funds.

By Dennis Kabaara 3 months ago

Began as national dialogue, ended up an incomplete elite settlement

Leaders' words unhelpful if they do not address citizens' worries

Endless naysaying is one thing, but offering a different picture requires real work, and our politics is all about playful sound and fury.

By Dennis Kabaara 5 months ago

Leaders' words unhelpful if they do not address citizens' worries

Forget the norm, this is what we expect President to address today

State of Nation Address should be different from budget, economic policy or an inspiring national day speech. Reporting must speak to the status of who and where we are as a nation.

By Dennis Kabaara 5 months ago

Forget the norm, this is what we expect President to address today

Why Ruto's 'tax everything that moves' approach is bound to fail

The everyday Kenyan is fed up watching YouTube and TikTok clips of large motorcades and frequent flyer pictures of leaders escaping a country where many struggle to get home.

By Dennis Kabaara 5 months ago

Why Ruto's 'tax everything that moves' approach is bound to fail

Cut cost of government, cost of doing business to lower cost of living

Fix the cost of doing business. Fix the cost of government. This begins to fix cost of living. Period.

By Dennis Kabaara 5 months ago

Cut cost of government, cost of doing business to lower cost of living

What tax collections say about Ruto's management of economy so far

We can argue all day long about tax rates, the tax base and the tax menu, but, at what point do we begin to accept that our tax/revenue/debt distress starts with our spending habits?

By Dennis Kabaara 5 months ago

What tax collections say about Ruto's management of economy so far

Ruto's shifting goalposts, fragile economy and other short stories

Kenya Kwanza's has disregarded the big promises that gave them victory. Ruto's second year in office does not inspire confidence as the economy worsens.

By Dennis Kabaara 5 months ago

Ruto's shifting goalposts, fragile economy and other short stories

Kenya Kwanza's ever-changing narratives bad for economy, livelihoods

Millions of beleaguered Kenyans are struggling with an unmanageable cost of living in a country where more jobs are lost than created while politicians talk and live large.

By Dennis Kabaara 6 months ago

Kenya Kwanza's ever-changing narratives bad for economy, livelihoods

Tax summit a great idea, but this is what it should focus on

There's need to look at tax policy and tax strategy, as well as tax administration. The government should move from debt-inspired to growth-friendly taxation regime.

By Dennis Kabaara 6 months ago

Tax summit a great idea, but this is what it should focus on

How much will it cost Kenya's economy to end rising poverty?

A different question could then be - is the size of attendance a proxy for the prevalence of poverty; larger crowds where it is more, and smaller where it is less?

By Dennis Kabaara 9 months ago

How much will it cost Kenya's economy to end rising poverty?

What Kenya needs is not 'nusu mkate' but permanent political settlement

Peaceful protest and demonstration does not equal violence and looting, neither does democratic policing and law enforcement equal beating and shooting.

By Dennis Kabaara 9 months ago

What Kenya needs is not 'nusu mkate' but permanent political settlement

With tyranny of numbers, Kenya Kwanza can only offer painful menu

In betting on the budget against the economy, Kenya Kwanza's tyranny of numbers sounds like it's business as usual mode while promising economic transformation.

By Dennis Kabaara 9 months ago

With tyranny of numbers, Kenya Kwanza can only offer painful menu

Budget 2023: When rubber meets the road

Fresh cost of living pain will visit Kenyans soon. This could fan public discontent in a way that favours an opposition struggling to keep up with Kenya Kwanza's highly disciplined populism.

By Dennis Kabaara 9 months ago

Budget 2023: When rubber meets the road

Budget 2023: Rubber meets the road as fresh pain visits Kenyans

There could be public discontent in a way that favours an opposition struggling to keep up with Kenya Kwanza's highly disciplined populism

By Dennis Kabaara 9 months ago

Budget 2023: Rubber meets the road as fresh pain visits Kenyans

The Sh210b back story largely ignored in this year's budget

The Budget 2023 has run for 217 days, or 31 weeks, since the process was launched by the Treasury CS on Thursday, November 10, 2022.

By Dennis Kabaara 10 months ago

The Sh210b back story largely ignored in this year's budget

Get ready for intriguing figures, roles and noisy budget making

This noisier-than-usual budget season has offered Kenyans a civic education moment on "bread and butter issues" beyond complexities like the Constitution or BBI.

By Dennis Kabaara 10 months ago

Get ready for intriguing figures, roles and noisy budget making

Use the budget season to show Kenyans how to revive economy

What we need is explanation of the debt management strategy, realistic revenue plan and programmatic spending plan

By Dennis Kabaara 10 months ago

Use the budget season to show Kenyans how to revive economy

Tricky balance: Why 'maandamano' is Ruto's leadership test moment

Azimio has demonstrated that they can shut down anything up to a third of the economy in next to no time. Ruto needs to take charge. In case he doesn't get it, he is the President.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Tricky balance: Why 'maandamano' is Ruto's leadership test moment

The real cost of Azimio protests is more than Sh10 billion a day

For the government to deliver on its mandate, we only need the leader. All else is detail. This administration is facing a much larger task than they anticipated on the campaign trail.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

The real cost of Azimio protests is more than Sh10 billion a day

Kenya Kwanza is operating as if it will be first-ever one term deal

The policy thinking that their campaign manifesto offered has now been reduced to transactions. It remains beyond comprehension that we actively and passively refuse to address public spending.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Kenya Kwanza is operating as if it will be first-ever one term deal

Kenya needs BBI back on the table not handshake to solve issues

But we cannot afford another handshake if we wish for a truly democratic and accountable state. The current divide does not represent our long-term aspirations to be a true and proper nation.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Kenya needs BBI back on the table not handshake to solve issues

What data tells us about Kenya as a company

Much of what we have heard over the past six months from Kenya Kwanza is plenty of moaning. When we get to the food poverty count the tables dramatically turn.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

What data tells us about Kenya as a company

DP's utterances show Kenya Kwanza wants nation to remain in poll mode

Gachagua has shown one of his key roles as being to protect and promote those who voted for the Kenya Kwanza as priority preference shareholders in our national schema of development.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

DP's utterances show Kenya Kwanza wants nation to remain in poll mode

Parliament must look at State's plans first, then budgets follow

Nobody wants to consider the irony that every CDF activity is a response to wider institutional failure. I've never understood how Parliament approves budgets without considering underlying plans.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Parliament must look at State's plans first, then budgets follow

Privatisation talk: The devil is in the detail

Between 2003 and 2008, privatisation happened in six entities, comprising four IPOs. The law is a good start, back-up policy might help but it is implementation that will matter.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Privatisation talk: The devil is in the detail

Ensuring equity, fairness best starting point for our tax regime

In the technical long-term that is government, debt represents future taxes, so a past decade of borrowing had sadly left us busy "kicking the can down the road".

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Ensuring equity, fairness best starting point for our tax regime

A better take at Huduma Namba is not short-term fix for Kenyans

Ruto has a responsibility to build on what has worked in the past, and fix what failed, or is failing. A view that takes us from Huduma Namba to Umoja Kenya does a couple of interesting things.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

A better take at Huduma Namba is not short-term fix for Kenyans

Bottom-up: Reality check in Kenya Kwanza's first budget policy plan

The real question for Kenyans is not if, but how, the "bottom-up" platform has translated into actionable policies, plans, programmes and projects that precede the budget and its implementation.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Bottom-up: Reality check in Kenya Kwanza's first budget policy plan

No need to light many fires, Kenya's problem isn't economic, it's societal

At an advanced level in the future, we might progress from storytelling to scenario building. Let's try this with the picture that KNBS is painting for us.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

No need to light many fires, Kenya's problem isn't economic, it's societal

Changes for IEBC are about next elections not our next generation

If our political leadership offers fantastically contrasting views on the 2022 presidential elections, we are not in LA Law territory - we are watching Vioja Mahakamani.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Changes for IEBC are about next elections not our next generation

Taxation: Why Kenyan goose should be plucked gently

The conversation about taxes is not a conversation about government, but one about citizens and businesses as taxpayers.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Taxation: Why Kenyan goose should be plucked gently

We need an 'all hands on deck' moment to build Kenya we want

Why all of this stuff we stress ourselves about on economic recovery, bottom-up hustlers, universal incomes and health and the like really matter?

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

We need an 'all hands on deck' moment to build Kenya we want

Issues to ponder over as mid-term budget hearings are held this week

Dennis Kabaara asks pertinent questions as mid-term budget hearings start.

By Denis Kabaara, Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Issues to ponder over as mid-term budget hearings are held this week

New Budget: Where the rubber meets the road for Ruto projects

The best and finest policies and plans have always met "earth is hard" reality at budget stage.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

New Budget: Where the rubber meets the road for Ruto projects

Analysis: To fix the economy, Ruto should first fix his government

President Ruto doesn't decide society, and he only indirectly runs the economy through policy action

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Analysis: To fix the economy, Ruto should first fix his government

2023: This is the language that will build a new Kenya

Some of these words or phrases/buzz phrases will be familiar to readers in one form or another, but others are completely original imaginations and word combinations.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

2023: This is the language that will build a new Kenya

Time to ask: Has devolution era contributed to better outcomes?

There is an added complication around political parties, particularly for independents, but also for "minority" governors facing "opposing" county assembly majorities.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Time to ask: Has devolution era contributed to better outcomes?

100 days is too short a time to gauge the Ruto administration

We still do not have a publicly known economic, and fiscal, framework 100 days into office. I still insist, for the record, that this 100-day metric is an irritating false flag.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

100 days is too short a time to gauge the Ruto administration

With soaring inflation, Kenyans deserve more than 'sweet' words

A visitor from Mars would be forgiven for wondering if Kenya is now a parallel universe in which, on the one hand, something is happening, or, on the other, nothing has started.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

With soaring inflation, Kenyans deserve more than 'sweet' words

Media meets digital, what then is the future of journalism in Kenya?

What is the future of news, and views? These are tough questions in a fast-changing news climate increasingly driven towards a technology-focused bottom-line.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Media meets digital, what then is the future of journalism in Kenya?

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