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Cushion the shilling from free fall

Kenya: During the 2013 General Election, the Jubilee coalition promised Kenyan voters that in the first two years it would purse exchange rate stability and monetary policy that will lower interest rates.

However, the current depreciation of the shilling against the dollar and other major international currencies, in the last eight months, has shown the promise was a pipe dream.

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