Big battles with donors to save weak economy

The late President Moi with a world Bank official

In 1993, months after the general election, Kenya’s inflation figures had hit a record high of 50 per cent and the government was going bust.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) had stagnated for three years and agriculture — the country’s economic mainstay — had shrunk to an annual growth rate of 3.9 per cent.