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Locally produced goods is our ticket to a million decent jobs

A woman displaying merchandise at her shop in Naivasha, Nakuru County. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]

We are living in hard economic times. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development projects that global economic growth will drop to 2.2 per cent this year.

This will cost the world more than $17 trillion, which will continue wiping away thousands of jobs every month. Against this backdrop, Kenya must act speedily and innovatively.

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