Despite all the challenges to the Kenyan Economy, it is projected to be the third fastest growing economy in the world in 2015!

Link: Kenyan Economy to be the third fastest growing economy in the world.

The day every Kenyan will have access to affordable quality health care and clean water to every household is when I will know Our economy has grown .

Ethiopia and Tanzania were obviously not in that survey. Ethiopia is doing a consistent 9% while TZ is doing consistent 7%

Kenyans are too accepting of mediocrity. We can't be rejoicing at such a tiny level of growth. We shouldn't be happy coz we now have a bigger economy than Somalia.

If one day we have a serious government that is hyper focused we might even do 20% economic growth, we shouldn't rest until we atleast get to about 12,000 USD GDP per capita - that will mean most of our citizens are living a reasonable life at about 1,000 USD spend per month.

For now we are still playing in Division 3rd world and a lot of our citizens are still going hungry. We are lucky we're far from the Atlantic or Kenyans would be drowning in the Mediterranean trying to get to Europe. We are seeing our desperate citizens going to the Middle East to work in slave like conditions because we just can't manage ourselves and our resources.

PS: Economic growth is not rocket science.

As I said, we are very far from our destination but great strides have been made.

Do a simple survey at your work place or estate - friends etc. I have met numerous people who tell me they never imagined there will be electricity in their villages in their life time. Piped water was not even imaginable. They now have both!!! And I am talking about people from all corners of Kenya. They is still A LOT to be done but something is being done.

We all have big dreams for our kids but we still celebrate "small" achievements like when they make the first step, utter their first word, are fully toilet trained, join school, are finally able to write their name etc. That DOES NOT mean we have lost sight of the "bigger" dreams. Kenya is also our baby!

I hope this means some of the ECB's QE money is coming straight to the NSE

Me too,just sipping my drinks as I await the Euros. For the last two years, some of Tanzania stocks have had huge returns but transactions take too long to conclude so I can't invest there.