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Middle-income mirage: New status won’t shelter economy from raging headwinds

 

Today, the Government will tell Kenyans that the country has hit a target it thought it would reach in 16 years’ time: Kenya is now a middle-income economy.

The country has achieved its grand dream by bringing in the contribution of services like M-Pesa into the calculations of the value of goods and services produced annually.

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