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murchr
#461 Posted : Friday, October 04, 2013 2:59:14 PM
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Ericsson wrote:
NSE market capitalisation is now more than 50% of the Kenyan GDP.
Means as a country there is need to work more to grow the economy so that the NSE is a quarter of the GDP/the GDP needs to be doubled.


Mmh....interesting. Indeed the NSE is not a fish market smile
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Kausha
#462 Posted : Sunday, October 06, 2013 12:09:07 PM
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What's the official GDP size. Not sure about the KNBS data, it looks west gatish at times no pun intended!
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#463 Posted : Sunday, October 06, 2013 12:12:50 PM
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Oficial size of kenya's gdp is ksh.3.61 trillion or $41.5B
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hisah
#464 Posted : Monday, October 07, 2013 4:21:50 AM
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http://www.nation.co.ke/...2/-/gj140e/-/index.html

Mining crosshairs...
$15/barrel oil... The commodities lehman moment arrives as well as Sovereign debt volcano!
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#465 Posted : Monday, October 07, 2013 3:54:38 PM
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Ericsson wrote:
Oficial size of kenya's gdp is ksh.3.61 trillion or $41.5B


Link pls?
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hisah
#466 Posted : Monday, October 07, 2013 4:15:42 PM
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mwekez@ji wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
Oficial size of kenya's gdp is ksh.3.61 trillion or $41.5B


Link pls?

WB official stats

http://data.worldbank.org/country/kenya

Or from Trading Economics - http://www.tradingeconomics.com/kenya/gdp




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mwekez@ji
#467 Posted : Monday, October 07, 2013 7:24:08 PM
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hisah wrote:
mwekez@ji wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
Oficial size of kenya's gdp is ksh.3.61 trillion or $41.5B


Link pls?

WB official stats

http://data.worldbank.org/country/kenya

Or from Trading Economics - http://www.tradingeconomics.com/kenya/gdp






Thanks @hisah for the links and that informative chart. @Ericsson, you have latest data than the links above. What's your source?
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murchr
#468 Posted : Tuesday, October 08, 2013 5:38:29 AM
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Africa has 55 billionaires, far more than previously thought, Nigeria-based Ventures financial magazine says.

They include three women - the mother of Kenya's president, a daughter of Angola's president and a Nigerian oil tycoon and fashion designer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24433996
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#469 Posted : Tuesday, October 08, 2013 9:24:31 AM
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#470 Posted : Tuesday, October 08, 2013 12:20:05 PM
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Currency

Kenyan shilling (KES)



Trade organizations

CEN-SAD, COMESA, EAC, WTO and others



Statistics



GDP

Nominal: $41.84 billion (2012 est.)
billion PPP: $76.07 billion (2012 est.)



GDP per capita

Nominal: $850 (2011 est.)[citation needed]
PPP: $1,800 (2012 est.)



GDP by sector

agriculture (24.2%), industry (14.8%), services (61.0%) (2012 est.)



Inflation (CPI)

10.1% (2012 est.)



Population
below poverty line

45% (2012 est.)[citation needed]



Gini coefficient

42.5% (2008 est.)



Labour force

18.89 million (2012 est.)



Labour force
by occupation

agriculture 75%, industry and services 25% (2007 est.)



Unemployment

40% (2008 est.)



Main industries

small-scale consumer goods (plastic, furniture, batteries, textiles, clothing, soap, cigarettes, flour), agricultural products, horticulture, oil refining; aluminium, steel, lead; cement, commercial ship repair, tourism



Ease of Doing Business Rank

59.0% (121st)[1]
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Kausha
#471 Posted : Tuesday, October 08, 2013 2:48:40 PM
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So $37.23B GDP converted to Kshs at an exchange rate of 87 gives 3.239 trillion GDP in Kshs terms. We have debt of Kshs 2trillion meaning our Debt to GDP is about 62% and not the 50% that keeps being repeated severally. Would one argue our gearing to GDP is risky?
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#472 Posted : Tuesday, October 08, 2013 3:04:19 PM
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@Kausha;GDP is not $37.23B but $41.84B which when converted to kshs is 3.640 trillion shillings.
We have a debt of ksh.1.9 trillion meaning our debt to GDP ratio is 52.2% which is correct when it's repeated severally.
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murchr
#473 Posted : Wednesday, October 09, 2013 6:16:38 AM
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Moody’s asks Kenya to consider issuing diaspora bonds
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#474 Posted : Friday, October 11, 2013 8:36:47 PM
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#475 Posted : Saturday, October 12, 2013 10:41:17 AM
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Tech cities and mega dams: Africa's giant infrastructure projects


Great Inga Dam -- Democratic Republic of the Congo

Potentially the world's largest hydroelectric dam, the Great Inga is a project to tame the mighty Congo River and provide much-needed renewable energy for up to 500 million Africans.

Mombasa -- Kampala -- Kigali railway project -- Kenya/Uganda/Rwanda


Stretching almost 3,000 kilometers and connecting three East African countries, the Mombasa-Kigali railway could be the continent's answer to the Orient Express.

Konza City -- Kenya

Konza City is a $9.2 billion dollar technology and financial metropolis project located southeast of Nairobi.
Dubbed the "African Silicon Savannah" the project is part of "Vision 2030," the Kenyan government's plan to improve the quality of life for its citizens.

http://edition.cnn.com/2...e/index.html?hpt=ibu_c2
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#476 Posted : Saturday, October 12, 2013 12:01:40 PM
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Kenya’s Sh1.8 Trillion Debt: Sustainable or not?

http://www.ieakenya.or.k...urdern-is-it-sustainable
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Kausha
#477 Posted : Monday, October 14, 2013 6:11:53 AM
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Ericsson wrote:
@Kausha;GDP is not $37.23B but $41.84B which when converted to kshs is 3.640 trillion shillings.
We have a debt of ksh.1.9 trillion meaning our debt to GDP ratio is 52.2% which is correct when it's repeated severally.


@Ericson Using your $41.84B estimates assumes we have been growing at +7% in real GDP terms from 2007 and +12% in nominal terms. Since we are using Real GDP here applying KNBS estimates we end up at about $37B. Do you have the latest debt figures because that number is past 2 trillion last time I checked. This 52.2% keeps me entertained. It never moves up or down we just fudge the GDP number it appears!

I fear we are begining to look like the PIGS states in Debt to GDP numbers and we all know how it went down.

http://www.businessdaily.../-/jbclbdz/-/index.html

d'oh! Liar
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#478 Posted : Monday, October 14, 2013 1:28:35 PM
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Kenya-ranked-third-largest-recipient-of-World-Bank-loans

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murchr
#479 Posted : Monday, October 14, 2013 3:11:26 PM
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Uganda has invited its four East African Community ( EAC) partner states to buy stakes in the proposed Uganda oil refinery.

A 40 per cent shareholding will be reserved for the public sector. All the EAC members must confirm participation in the project by October 15.

The multi-billion dollar refinery will be developed on a public-private partnership basis, where the public owns 40 per cent shares while the private sector takes 60 per cent.

Kenya, the economic powerhouse of the EAC bloc has the only operating refinery that is currently facing several challenges at the moment owing to its ageing condition.

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Ericsson
#480 Posted : Tuesday, October 15, 2013 8:31:32 AM
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kenya's public debt has risen passed the ksh.2 trillion mark
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