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Kenya’s moment of truth as Treasury set to review economy

A trader hawks his fresh farm produce in Nyeri town [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) will tomorrow release a reviewed size of the economy in what is likely to create leg room for the National Treasury to borrow more.

Technically known as rebasing, the exercise is meant to include new activities into the computation of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), size of the national cake, in a tumultuous economic environment in which the country ran out of space to chalk up more loans.  

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