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Reflections on the Budget
Yesterday, 11th June 2009, the current Finance Minister, Mr Uhuru Kenyatta read his maiden budget to a packed House. The initial indications are tha
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Budget Speech 2009
Presented below is the full text of the Budget Speech the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta read out before parliament yesterd
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How does the greatest bull run of all times end?
Contrary to what the general public thinks, the most remarkable bull market in our times has not been that of that stocks, or even of real estate, but
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Analysing the current financial crisis
Over the past few days, I've been collecting a few articles that have struck me as relevant in the (large) body of articles purporting to explain th
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Business and Finance

Reforming motor insurance
As news from the insurance industry goes, the announcement of the revival of previously fallen Invesco Insurance Company was big news. The insurer w
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Filing VAT Returns
It's a silly process, it's unnecessary but it is also something you have to endure. I woke early to make sure I was in the queue, at Times Tower. Th
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Trade & Industry

Big Milk Cheese
With a dairy cattle population estimated at nearly 7million, the largest such herd in Africa and more than the rest of the countries in East and Sou
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What if it Happened Here?
The 7.0 magnitude quake that has flattened the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, should give East Africans pause for thought. What if a similar quake h
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Massive crop failure in 'grain basket'
Two months before harvest time, the maize in Kenya's Rift Valley should be tall, lush and green, bursting with life. Instead, crops in the province's
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Hand in Mouth: National Security, food and Doha
Thanks to Wall Street, this is the season forwestern-country bashing. God knows I have sickened of it. My qualm with thebashing is not its veracity --
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Obama Calls for Agricultural Development, Not Aid
American president Barack Obama wants the United States, the world's largest provider of food aid, to focus on agricultural development in the countri
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Helping Kenyan farmers at the touch of a button
The ability to correctly diagnose and treat crop diseases such as banana wilt via mobile phone is just one of endless possibilities for smallholder fa
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A warning before time: the AngloDisease
In the 70s, the Economist coined the label "Dutch Disease" to describe the economic travails of the Netherlands as the country's export-or
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The Grassroots Mobile Revolution in Africa
It didn't take us long to find it. After all, mobile phone masts aren't that easy to hide, and Masindi is a tightly-knit, flat little west Ugandan t
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