Kenya’s vision is to be a middle-income, industrialising country with a high quality of life by 2030. With four years to go, progress has been mixed.
At $2,000 per capita, we are low middle income, a democracy (flawed according to some), but we are not industrialising. The share of manufacturing in GDP dropped to 7.6 percent in 2023, from 11 percent in 2012. We could yet turn our fortunes around. With the Central Region Economic Bloc (Cereb) as an example, here is how.
