Tag: Economic Recovery

Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 31 of 2025

KENYA Draft Regulations for Non-Deposit-Taking Credit Providers The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has released draft regulations for Non-Deposit-Taking Credit Providers (NDTCPs), expanding oversight beyond digital credit providers to strengthen consumer protection, enforce ethical lending, and close regulatory gaps in Kenya’s fast-growing credit market. The proposed rules cover transparency in loan agreements, responsible use of […]...

Trade and Financial Service Round-Up

Kenya Absa, Old Mutual launch new insurance for SMEs Absa Bank Kenya and Old Mutual Kenya have launched a joint insurance product targeted at Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The prod...

16 Feb 2024

CBK surveys point to optimism despite inflationary pressures: MPC raises interest rates.

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) conducts a Market Perceptions Survey before each Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting to gather insights from banks and non-bank private sector firms regarding vario...

14 Oct 2022

Rethinking Economic Recovery in Kenya: Privatisation of parastatals and the barriers

Privatisation refers to the transfer of parastatal’s ownership and control from the public to the private sector. Earlier this week, President William Ruto stated that his administration plans to pr...

12 Nov 2021

The Senate Speaker’s Roundtable 2021. Economic Recovery During and Post Covid-19: Strategies and Opportunities in Building A Better Future Together

The KEPSA Senate Speaker’s Roundtable is a high level platform between the business community led by KEPSA and the Senate, to facilitate a joint review of the policy and legislative environment ...

22 Oct 2021

Mashujaa Day Goodies: A Look at Uhuru’s Economic Stimulus Strategy

President Uhuru Kenyatta took advantage of Mashujaa Day celebrations on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, to announce a raft of economic measures and interventions his government seeks to make to reinvigor...

30 Jan 2021

Kenya National Budget Part 1: Building back better: Strategy for resilient and sustainable economic recovery

KENYA NATIONAL BUDGET The current state of engagement between the state and the public on matters related to budget allocations, expenditures, and actual service delivery outcomes is mostly focused on...

30 Jan 2021

The Davos Agenda

The Davos Agenda 2021, saw about 1500 global leaders come together under the theme of “A crucial year to rebuild trust” to discuss issues such as COVID-19 vaccination, job creation, climate change...

27 Nov 2020

Treasury’s post COVID-19 economic recovery strategy

The National Treasury and Planning State Department for Planning this week presented highlights of a Post-Covid 19 economic recovery strategy (ERS) including: Macroeconomic Objectives of ERS Increasin...

20 Nov 2020

Highlights of the first quarterly economic and budgetary review report in the 2020/21 FY

10.7% Growth in broad money supply, M3, improved to 10.7 percent in the year to September 2020 compared to a growth of 6.5 percent in the year to September 2019....

25 Sep 2020

Treasury’s take: Impact of Covid-19 on Kenya’s Economy

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019 has caused the most severe global economic setback. Its impact to our economy includes: -Loss of lives -Decline in demand of Kenya’s goods and services,...

18 Sep 2020

In need of revival: The evening economy

As we walk the path to economic recovery, we need to work towards resuscitating the evening economy while keeping safe....

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