Hard questions for IMF, World Bank

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Demonstrators in Nairobi protesting against the high cost of living. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Experts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank had been invited to submit presentations on the high cost of living headache that has gripped Kenya at a meeting convened by the National Dialogue Committee that is stewarding the ongoing discussions between the ruling party and the opposition.

But opposition party, the Orange Democratic Party (ODM) would have none of it. The party put out a terse statement rejecting the inclusion of the two multilateral institutions in the talks, arguing that advice by the Bretton Woods Institutions was to blame for the crisis in the first place.

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