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How debt, inflation and fiscal deficit have crippled economic expansion

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A shopper buys maize flour at a supermarket. Inflation has seen the cost of food products rise sharply. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

A public policy think tank has unearthed how Kenya's macroeconomic status is derailing the country's economic transformation.

The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (Kippra), details how fluctuations in this dimension of the economy end up affecting local production and foreign investments.

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