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Kenya edges up WB business ranking but questions linger

Employees overseeing the canning of tomato paste inside Njoro Canners factory on August 30, 2019. The company engages farmers on contract. [Harun Wathari/Standard]

Kenya’s ranking in the World Bank’s ease of doing business has improved amid a tough environment that has seen companies downsize and send workers home.

The country has moved up five places in the latest ranking ahead of such economic giants as India, Italy, Brazil, and South Africa to settle at position 56. Kenya was ranked at position 61 previously.

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