Kenya: 2008 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Kenya

October 17, 2008

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Kenya: 2008 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Kenya, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed November 26, 2024

Summary

Kenya’s macroeconomic performance continued to improve until violence erupted in the aftermath of the general elections of December 2007. This 2008 Article IV Consultation highlights that GDP growth reached 7.0 percent in 2007, the highest in more than two decades. Monetary policy was tightened in June 2008 to address rising inflation pressures. Executive Directors have welcomed the recent tightening of monetary policy and the authorities’ readiness to tighten further to prevent the second-round effect of rising food and fuel prices.

Subject: Consumer price indexes, Debt sustainability, External debt, Prices, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Africa, Consumer price indexes, CR, Debt, Debt sustainability, Deficit, Exchange rate, Fuel price, GDP, Global, Government, Growth bottleneck, ISCR, Kenya, Managed float, Structural reform agenda

Publication Details

Pages:

58
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2008/339
Stock No:

1KENEA2008004
ISBN:

9781451821215
ISSN:

1934-7685

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