The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that it has completed a two-week governance diagnostic mission in Kenya. The IMF’s technical assistance mission, led by Rebecca A. Sparkman ...

The financing from the World Bank is critical at a time when the government has found itself under mounting fiscal pressures demonstrated by missed revenue targets and the lack of a ...

Kenya’s external liquidity pressure has significantly eased following the early repayment of a KSh 258 billion ($2 billion) ...

Kenya's cost of servicing its debts is expected to remain stubbornly high, ratings agency Moody's said on Wednesday, as the ...

Small, medium enterprises (SME) play a pivotal role in economic development. There are about 7.4 million SMEs in Kenya as per ...

At the request of the Kenyan authorities, an IMF Technical Assistance mission led by Rebecca A. Sparkman visited Kenya from June 16-30, 2025, to conduct a Governance Diagnostic. This mission followed ...

“What Kenya and other IMF patients should do is to first make sure poor people get enough support for subsistence. Don’t touch that. And then try to increase the size of your economy,” he said.

IMF staff and the Kenyan authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on economic policies to conclude the second reviews of the 38-month EFF/ECF financed program. Kenya would have access to ...