Kenya’s economy remained in doldrums in the third quarter of 2020 despite progressive easing of lockdowns imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19, new data shows.
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics(KNBS) said the country’s GDP contracted 1.1 per cent in the July-September 2020 period compared to a similar period a year earlier — marginally defying earlier predictions that the economy had to reached a lowest point in the second quarter and was set to begin rising.
