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What does it mean to be a middle-income country?

Kenya is now a lower middle-income country, and about 25 per cent richer than we thought we were. That World Bank designation comes with consequences.

Because we are no longer in the category of the poorest countries in the world, we may lose some of the foreign assistance we have been getting from the international donor community. In many ways, that is actually a good thing.

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