Kenya reduces finance costs on IMF credit lines

The National Treasury building in Nairobi. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NMG

Cheaper World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans have reduced the average cost of the Kenya government’s loans by 2.2 percentage points from 9.1 percent to 6.9 percent.

Parliament Budget Office in a debt analysis said the multilateral loans eased the cost of repaying Kenyan debt despite local banks increasing interest rates for the government.

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