Critical policy issues raised in BBI report

President Uhuru Kenyatta reads the BBI report when he received it at State House, Nairobi, on November 26, 2019. PHOTO | PSCU

So, what does the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) process portend in terms of changes with implications for economic policy. This is my take on some key suggestions and recommendations by the BBI taskforce that carry implications for the running of the economy.

I find the idea of increasing the share of resources to county governments to at least 35 percent of the last audited accounts to be very ambitious, especially in the context of the current poor state of public finances.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.