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President William Ruto addresses a congregation during Interdenominational thanksgiving prayers at State House in Nairobi on September 25, 2022. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]
"When you view not just the what they built, but the culture of innovation they inspired, it becomes clear that the real revolution in America after the Civil War was not political, but economic," conclude Harvard University scholar Clayton Christensen, Efosa Ojomo and Daren Dillon in The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation can lift Nations out of Poverty.
William Ruto starts a prodigious task of fixing a broken economy, but the play area is not wide enough. Compounding the problem is that he is inheriting a soaring national debt whose interest payments are equivalent to the education and health budgets. Dr Ruto is admired for his singleness of mind; that is the political part of the equation. He will earn loyalty by the effectiveness and efficiency by which he turns around an economy that is out of kilter.
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