poverty

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World Bank
BUSINESS

World Bank Warns Middle East Conflict Could Push 2.4 Million Kenyans Into Poverty

Kenya could see millions more people pushed into poverty this year as the economic shock from the ongoing Middle East conflict ripples through...

Person holding Kenyan bank notes
ECONOMY

Poverty Persists Despite Growth as Inequality Gap Remains Wide

Kenya’s economic growth is no longer lifting people out of poverty as effectively as it once did, raising fresh concerns about inequality and...

How to Get Rich in Kenya
INSPIRATIONLIFESTYLE

How to Get Rich in Kenya

The difference between the rich and the poor is often not intelligence

Geoffrey Ouma - Sevenett LLC
SMART BUSINESS

Geoffrey Ouma: I Overcame Poverty to Establish Leading School in the US

Geoffrey Ouma knows what abject poverty means because he was born into a poverty-stricken family on the outskirts of Nairobi, before relocating to...

President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto. Questions linger over most wealthy families calling the shots in politics over how they made the money.
PEOPLE

Kenya’s Wealthiest Families Calling the Shots in Politics

As millions of Kenyans continue wallowing in poverty, a handful of others are swimming in billions of shillings and eating life with a...

Digital lenders will be teaching their customers about financial wellness this month. www.businesstoday.co.ke
ECONOMY

Billionaires Increasing in Kenya as Majority Slide Into Poverty

Questionably wealthy Kenyans with billions stashed abroad had repatriated an estimated Sh1 trillion from their offshore accounts as of June this year. This...

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Poverty levels to remain above 20% by 2030 on current growth

Kenya has been covered widely in economic news over the last decade, from the first large-scale application of mobile money to a vibrant...

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Kenyan men who rent out their wives

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t's a cloudy Sunday morning in Kenya's Kwale county and Sande Ramadan just woke up to get ready for another weekend of work....

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Survey: Richest few own 80% of the world

Eighty-two percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest 1% of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who...