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Kenya among top borrowers from the World Bank in 2015

Workers tarmac a road. The bulk of World Bank cash went to finance infrastructure projects. [PHOTO:STANDARD/FILE]

Kenya is among top-ten borrowers from the World Bank Group (WB) having received about $1.3 billion (about Sh133 billion) in commitments from the bank in fiscal year 2015.

The amount secured from the international lender is the largest in the country’s history with the only other top African borrower listed by the bank’s 2015 annual report being Ethiopia.

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