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Kenya’s FY 2025/26 budget shows rising fiscal strain: revenue lags spending, deficits grow, and costly domestic borrowing dominates financing. Debt interest consumes 25% of revenue, crowding out development. With rigid recurrent costs, sustainability risks are high without urgent fiscal reforms.
Author: Omukoko Okoth
View Document→Government of Kenya (1965). Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965 on African Socialism and Its Application to Planning in Kenya. Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, Nairobi.
African Socialism and Its Application to Planning in Kenya (1965) sets out Kenya’s post-independence economic philosophy. It advocates a mixed economy grounded in African values of social responsibility and democracy, while rejecting rigid capitalism and communism. The paper stresses economic growth as key to reducing poverty and unemployment, supports limited state intervention, encourages private enterprise, and calls for gradual Africanization without harming productivity.
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