Investing in Kenya
Although the regional hub for trade and finance in East Africa, Kenya has been hampered by corruption and by reliance upon several primary goods whose prices have remained low. In 1997, the IMF suspended Kenya's Enhanced Structural Adjustment Program due to the government's failure to maintain reforms and curb corruption. The IMF, which had resumed loans in 2000 to help Kenya through a drought, again halted lending in 2001 when the government failed to institute several anticorruption measures. In the key December 2002 elections, Daniel Arap MOI's 24-year-old reign ended, and a new opposition government took on the formidable economic problems facing the nation. After some early progress in rooting out corruption and encouraging donor support, the Kibaki government was rocked by high-level graft scandals in 2005 and 2006. In 2006, the World Bank and IMF delayed loans pending action by the government on corruption. The international financial institutions and donors have since resumed lending, despite little action on the government's part to deal with corruption. Post-election violence in early 2008, coupled with the effects of the global financial crisis on remittance and exports, reduced GDP growth to 1.7 in 2008, but the economy rebounded in 2009-10.
Central Bank of Kenya - http://www.centralbank.go.ke/
Barclays Kenya - http://www.barclays.com/africa/kenya/index.html
Base Resources - titanium project in Mombasa
Safaricom - http://www.safaricom.co.ke/
TOTAL Kenya - http://www.total.co.ke/
Kenya Investing News
2011-07-11 - (reu) - Australia firm says Kenya titanium project starts Sept
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Nairobi) - http://www.agra-alliance.org/
Business Daily (Nairobi) - http://www.bdafrica.com/
The East African Standard (Nairobi) - http://www.eastandard.net/
The East African (Nairobi) - http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/
The Nation (Nairobi) - http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (Nairobi) - http://www.irinnews.org/
Countries that border Kenya: Somalia | Ethiopia | Sudan | Uganda | Tanzania
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