Kenya’s Public Debt Blind Spot: The Missing Piece in Debt Sustainability Analysis
Thu, Jul 16, 2026 | 12:33 pm
Traditional debt sustainability assessments may be asking the wrong question for Kenya. This is because their emphasis has been on whether the ...
Fiscal Policy in an era of Global Instability: The End of Business as Usual
Mon, May 11, 2026 | 12:08 pm
Introduction: The Debt Trap
For a long time, Kenya's fiscal policy was largely a domestic affair. The fiscal discourse was dominated by ...
An Overview of Kenya’s Tax Expenditures: From “Silent Spending” to Fiscal Accountability
Wed, Apr 15, 2026 | 12:56 pm
Defining Tax Expenditures: The Hidden Budget
Tax expenditures often described as silent spending, are the revenues a government chooses to forgo by ...
Kenya’s Debt Story: Structural Vulnerabilities and the Path to a Sustainable Trajectory
Tue, Jan 27, 2026 | 12:09 pm
In the mid-2010s, Kenya embarked on a path toward fiscal consolidation, a strategy designed to set the national public debt on a ...
The Compliance Challenge: Investigating Non-Adherence to Kenya’s PFM Fiscal Rules
Tue, Oct 28, 2025 | 3:17 pm
Fiscal rules are essentially long-term numerical caps governments impose on themselves, targeting key budgetary metrics like spending, deficits, or debt. Their primary purpose is to ...
Is Kenya’s Budget Too Rigid? A look at Non-discretionary Spending
Tue, Jul 1, 2025 | 10:25 am
On Thursday, June 12, 2025, the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning presented the Kenya's Budget Statement for the Fiscal Year ...
Budget Credibility Trends and the need for Fiscal Discipline in Kenya
Mon, May 19, 2025 | 9:38 am
The recent submission of budget estimates to Parliament marks a crucial step in the annual budget cycle, but the true measure of ...
Why is Kenya’s Fiscal Consolidation Agenda Facing Failure?
Fri, Aug 23, 2024 | 11:00 am
The earliest proposition of fiscal consolidation can be traced back to the Keynesian theory which argues that fiscal austerity measures reduce growth ...
Double Taxation Agreements: How they Work
Wed, Mar 13, 2024 | 5:12 pm
Introduction
According to the United Nations, Double Taxation Agreements (DTAs) are “bilateral agreements between two countries which allocate taxing rights over income ...
