Do more to sustain pace of economic recovery

Crowded view of Tom Mboya street in Nairobi. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

Amidst all the doom and gloom brought about by the difficult times, a ray of hope came out of an employment report by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) yesterday.

KNBS’ Quarterly Labour Force Report showed that more than 2.1 million Kenyans who had been rendered jobless at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic by end of June had landed jobs by end of March.