The puzzle of low performers with big county revenue share

A section of Kenyatta Avenue in Nairobi on July 24, 2015.

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This article assesses performance differentials between Kenya’s top performing counties and the lowest performing counties over two separate five-year periods, taking the six lowest and six top performing counties.

The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics does a sterling job with statistics, taking the pulse of the nation. On Devolution, the latest 2024 GCP Report (2019-2023) scopes the last five-year period. It carries interesting insights compared to the first five-year GCP Report (2013-2017) issued in 2019.

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