House budget office wants changes in debt limit measure

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Parliament buildings in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) wants lawmakers to change how Kenya calculates the public debt ceiling from numerical limit to one based on a ratio of economic output.

BPO — the unit which advises members of parliament (MPs) on financial and economic matters — argues that arbitrary setting and raising of debt ceiling based on a numerical limit is delinked from economic indicators like size of the economy

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