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Private sector activities fall as production costs hit record high

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An employee at leather factory in Nairobi. [Fidelis Kabunyi, Standard]

The record retail prices for fuel, higher taxes and the weak shilling resulted in the costs for raw materials rising at their fastest pace in over a decade last month.

This, in turn, saw manufacturers pass the higher costs to consumers.

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