Why Kenya has lost its lucrative exports market share

Roses for export

Roses being prepared for export. 

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Kenya’s failure to diversify the goods it sells abroad has hit its performance in key lucrative export markets, leaving it trailing its regional peers Uganda and Tanzania, an analysis by the World Bank reveals.

In its latest Kenya Economic Update, the World Bank notes that Kenya has mainly relied on the shipment of a fixed basket of products — a position that has seen it lose market share in the key European Union (EU) bloc.

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