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Opinion: Bottom-up economics is the future but the bureaucrats gaining from cronyism oppose

Paminas Ongaro pushing a wheelbarrow with sugarcane.[Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard]

Early 20th century economists pitched for ‘trickle-down’ economics, fronting large scale infrastructural projects as central to employment generation. States favoured financing industrial and urban development, and incentivized capital investment.

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