Title: The Insights into Constitutional Amendment Bill (2020): Review of Chapter 9 & 12(National Executive and Public Finance)
Date: 3rd March, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Venue: Microsoft Teams
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Trends in Kenya’s Total Domestic Public Debt Stock from 1999 – 2018 (In nominal terms)
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Trends in Kenya’s Total Domestic Public Debt Stock from 1999 – 2018 (In nominal terms)
Source: Central Bank of Kenya
The number of the Week: 2.1, this is the factor by which domestic debt has grown in the last five years.
Domestic debt has nearly doubled in the last five years (2013-2018)
- Between 1999 and 2013, Kenya borrowed a trillion shillings domestically, with an average of Ksh 77 billion borrowed yearly.
- Between 2013 and 2018, Kenya borrowed 1.5 trillion shillings domestically, with an average of Ksh 260 billion annually.
- In the last 19 years (1999-2018), Kenya has been borrowing an average of 120 billion annually.
- The increased domestic borrowing by the Government crowds out the private sector from borrowing in the local market.