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The good, the bad and the ugly of Kenya's mega PPP projects

A section of the 27km Nairobi Expressway, July 31, 2022. [PSCU]

It has been billed as a panacea to Kenya's perennial infrastructure financing crunch.

The promise of public-private partnerships (PPPs), where the State relies on financing from private investors to fund new mega projects, such as new roads and dams, has often been trumpeted by State mandarins as an innovative development model.

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