WB says infrastructure fund offers ‘short-term relief’ to Kenya fiscal woes

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The World Bank Group deems gains arising from creation of Kenya's National Infrastructure Fund (NIF) short-term, stressing the need for deeper reforms to achieve a lower budget deficit and ease debt pressures.

Kenya has bet on the new infrastructure fund to move some of its development financing needs from the budget (off-balance sheet) and create fiscal space to cater for other spending requirements such as expenditures on social services and health.

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