In a page 4 Daily Nation article titled - Kenya lauded for beating ‘four crises’ by Kevin Kelly, Kenya is praised by the United Nations for recording significant growth during the 2008 and 2009 financial years.
Kenya is lauded for overcoming post election violence, drought, energy shortages and rising food prices as the ‘four crises’ plaguing the country since the 2007 general elections that saw the country plummet into anarchy, disorder and war.
According to the United Nations Economic Report on Africa published on Wednesday the 18th of May, Kenya is said to have restored ‘broad-based, robust growth’.
The report considered Agriculture as the dominating sector in the economy but actual growth was driven by ICT.
The report also commended the government for playing an important role in leading the growth results.
In its study, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the African Union singled out the government’s robust strategy for reviving the economy as the reason for this growth.
It compared Kenya’s growth to the growth of Asian and Latin American countries which achieved growth by adopting deliberate state intervention strategies.
Strategies planned and implemented by government through its fiscal and monetary agents that intervened directly in economic and social aspects of the country have been identified as the causes for this growth.
The report claims that Kenya is on the right path in regard to achieving Vision 2030.
Page 32 of the report clearly outlines the findings of the commission concerning Kenya’s growth.
Kenya is also extensively mentioned throughout the report for its efforts of restoring the Mau complex, investing heavily in infrastructural development, co-operating with CDM projects for transfer of clean technology, financing renewable energy programmes and adopting the implementation of feed-in tariffs in renewable energy production. These are mentioned in pages 33, 65, 66 and 68 of the report.
A downloadable copy of the report can be found here
http://bit.ly/ieOCCG