Africa’s economic rise will depend on more than roads, factories, technology, and financial systems.
Economy
Provides authoritative coverage of the forces shaping Kenya’s economic and financial environment. Tracks policy, markets, banking, inflation, and trade to deliver data-driven insights for decision-makers.
With a strong focus on trade and exports, this page offers timely analysis, data-driven insights, and expert perspectives to help business leaders, investors, and decision-makers understand market trends, assess risks, and identify opportunities in Kenya and the wider global economy.
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East Africa’s digital economy has become one of the region’s most powerful engines of commercial growth, but the infrastructure enabling that transformation is also creating a larger target for cybercriminals.
Kenya is looking to turn Germany into a bigger market for its exporters, but the strategy is shifting from simply shipping more products to capturing more value from every shipment.
Kenya’s dairy industry is confronting a cost crisis that is becoming increasingly difficult for farmers to absorb.
Kenyan businesses are facing a tax dilemma that goes beyond how much they pay to the government.
Kenya is preparing for another major intervention in the maize market, and the outcome could determine how much millions of households pay for unga in the coming months.
For Kenya’s smallest traders, the difference between a sale and a missed sale can be just a few shillings.
For Kenya's private sector, building capable people may ultimately be one of the most important forms of investment a business can make.
The proposed Dangote Lamu refinery is moving closer to construction, but a project designed to transform East Africa’s fuel market is confronting questions that could determine whether its ambitions match its scale.
Kenya’s ambition to turn its rare-earth wealth into an industrial advantage has gained fresh momentum after the United States offered to support local processing of minerals at Mrima Hill in Kwale.
