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President William Ruto during State of the Nation Address, Parliament, Nairobi. [PCS]
For economy watchers, two events of interest happened last week. The first, less public, one was a fascinating economic forum hosted by NCBA on November 7. The second, more public, one was Thursday's State of the Nation address by President William Ruto.
Of course, there were others, such as Thursday's launch of the Pan African Institute and Friday's "Transforming a Nation" conference, but Kenya is the sort of place where we are process masters at hosting all manner of MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) without actually mining the content of these events into nation-building knowledge.
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