Kenya Economic Update, October 2019 : Securing Future Growth - Policies to Support Kenya’s Digital Transformation

World Bank Group

World Bank, Nairobi

关键词: DIGITAL ECONOMY;    SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES;    ECONOMIC GROWTH;    ECONOMIC OUTLOOK;    FISCAL TRENDS;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Kenya continues to experience steadyeconomic growth, with real GDP expanding on average by about5.6 percent over the last five years (2014-2018). In 2019,however, economic activity has softened primarily due tolower agricultural output and weak private sectorinvestment. As a result, the World Bank projects Kenya’sgrowth at 5.8 percent for 2019 and settling at around 5.9percent over the medium term. The weakening of privateinvestment partly reflects crowding out from widening fiscaldeficits and relatedly limited access to credit by theprivate sector (growing by about 6.3 percent in August2019). Against this backdrop, it is my great pleasure topresent the twentieth edition of the World Bank’s KenyaEconomic Update.