Nation | by Paul Wafula
The Covid-19 pandemic has impoverished an additional two million Kenyans, a new report by the World Bank reveals.
With a growing unemployment, the development is a setback to the poverty reduction efforts made in the last five years.
The report, which confirms that Kenya has slipped into a recession, projects that the economy will contract by one per cent this year.
However, Treasury says the growth projection for 2020 is 0.6 per cent and not 2.9 per cent as was…

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