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State of urbanisation drives small businesses in the Mt Kenya region

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The main street in Maragua town [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]

Urbanisation is a key determinant, or at the very least has a high correlation with the number of licenced businesses and respective economic size among the counties of the central region economic block, more popularly known as Mt. Kenya.

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