So I said the poverty rate is 42 %. Your article says it is 36%. How is that a vicious lie. A difference of 6% is not statistically significant given that the margin of error might be as high as 6%.
The data from UNICEF suggests that the percentage of Kenyans in poverty is 42%
https://www.unicef.org/kenya/overview_4616.html
All these numbers are roughly similar. The differences are all due to margin of error. Nice try but an epic fail
Quote:The problem with this airtight poverty theology of yours is that it belongs to the 1980s and 1990s and some are still using knowledge they read in woebegone books from that bygone era forgetting that Kenya made great leaps forward economically after 2002. In fact even the official poverty statistics may be misleading because the economy is largely informal so it is next to impossible to track the economic activities of those in the informal sector, many of whom are listed as under the poverty line merely because the government has no formal data on them (KRA returns not filed, no bank account registered, MPESA activity may not be registered in the person's own name, business highly informalised etc etc)
This is bogus. You have a habit of calling data unreliable when you disagree with it. Whether a person is involved in the informal sector or not has no bearing on whether he is considered poor. Poverty is measured by how much a person consumes per day in dollar terms.
Quote:Have you been to the slums lately? Laughing out loudly My friend there is a HUGE OBESITY problem there as well! Go to any slum in Kenya and you will be shocked to find 1 out of ever 5 people there are not just FAT but OBESE. Don't believe me? Read hapa and weep!
https://nairobinews.nati...tus-found-kenyas-slums/
I would advise you to read that article very carefully. It does not say 1 in 5 people who live in slums is obese. In fact it says obesity is prevalent in high income areas.
Quote:Slums of today are not the slums of the 1980s my mubroda, even despite the dire conditions there is huge economic activity going on there that was absent in the 1980s and in fact many middle class people (and even rich - eg landlords and thriving business owners) live humo humo!
Yes there is huge economic activity going on. Its a lie to say there was no economic activity in the 1980s. I frequented Kibera in the 1980s and still do so today. I have relatives there. Most people in Kibera don't have steady employment. They just do kibarua kibarua. The moment a person's financial fortunes improve, they almost always leave.
Quote:As the economy of Kenya has been growing at 5% plus for the past 17 years more or less, the rising tide has lifted ALL BOATS in Kenya and poverty is reducing at rapid clip as obesity sky rockets.
An economic growth rate of 5% per year is not enough to make a significant dent in unemployment.
Why?
Because the number of people entering the job market is increasing by about 5% each year.
Quote:Obesity is a co-disease of Affluenza and there is no doubt that affluenza has been with us for quite some time now.
We agree on this. Where we disagree is your claim that affluenza is affecting all Kenyans.I have plenty of relatives who live in slum areas. Very few of my poor relatives or poor people I know in mashinani are obese. Obesity is clearly a middle class issue in Kenya.
Quote:Is there more work to be done in reducing poverty? Absolutely. But tackling obesity too will now become a big problem, even within the slums. Gava needs to start mechanisms in place to get people live healthier more active lives so that it does not become yet another national disaster IMHO.
Again we agree on this. Gava should indeed be tackling this issue starting by addressing the issue of landgrabbing as I pointed out above