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We have done the 100 days, and New Year's was President William Ruto's 110th. As a positive sign, he has embraced constructive criticism from the Azimio minority (not opposition), although some of the rest of his Kenya Kwanza team seem less willing to be called out.
The "handshake" between former President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga seems to be an endless bugbear; perpetually offered as the backdrop to Kenya's current economic malaise.
Of course, it is a little more complicated than that. Kenya's jobs crisis was identified in the early 1970s. Our import substitution economic strategy of the time showed no regard for productivity or competitiveness, which is probably the same reason why our flip-side export-led development strategy is largely a private sector practice of selling raw, unprocessed (crops) or natural (tourism) stuff. We simply haven't risen to the complexity level that enables us to make things efficiently.
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