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Address causes of poverty, inequality to ease planning

The level of poverty among citizens is derived from personal income distribution, which many of us think is based on ethnicity. [Courtesy]

Universities in India offer a course on the Indian economy. Unfortunately, I have never come across a local university offering a course on the Kenyan economy and our economists are yet to write a book on the same.

As a country, we need a book and a course highlighting problems of economic growth.

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