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A worker at the Rivatex textile company in Eldoret. The Government has earmarked the textile and apparel sectors as key in the job-creation agenda. [Kevin Tunoi, Standard]
The World Bank has described the pace of growth in manufacturing jobs in Kenya as "mediocre", pouring cold water on the country’s ambitious plan to create over a million new jobs by 2022.
The global lender in a new report also paints a bleak picture of Kenya’s attempt at upstaging Ethiopia in creating over 600,000 jobs in the textile and apparel value chain.
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