Why Kenya should resist urge to re-introduce price controls

Shoppers at Chieni Supermarket in Nyeri County on April 23, 2024. 

Photo credit: Photo| Joseph Kanyi

There is a renewed interest in the country in an idea that many economists and investors thought Kenya had left behind a long time ago: price controls.

Price controls have a long history, dating back thousands of years. According to historians, the Egyptian authorities regulated the production and distribution of grain in the third century BC. Babylonians implemented price controls through a legal text named the Code of Hammurabi.

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