Alarm as poverty levels in Kenya on the rise again

Women wash clothes in Kibera slum of Nairobi. PHOTO | AFP

Kenya’s poverty level is back on an upswing, a new survey shows, dealing a blow to plans to improve the lives of ordinary people by 2030.

A report by Afrobarometer-- a pan-African, non-partisan research network—shows Kenya’s Lived Poverty Index (LPI) has risen from 0.93 to 1.06 between 2014 and 2018.

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