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Why GDP is a flawed measure of a nation's wellbeing

Kenya recently rebased its economy by adding certain sectors such as real estate and ICT which had initially been left out in the computation of its gross domestic product (GDP) - the total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year. Kenya’s GDP is now estimated to be about Sh4.76 trillion.

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