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Lower oil prices are masking Kenya's under-performance in export sector

The gap between what Kenya pays for imports and what it receives for exports has been reducing.

But according to analysts at Renaissance Capital, this narrowing in the country’s current account deficit is largely a result of reduced spending on oil, and could easily be reversed when oil prices start improving.

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