UKUR YATANI Interview

摘要

Kenya faced several economic challenges in 2020; however, the country's latest lockdown measures are likely to be short-lived and strong economic growth will resume soon, according to Ukur Yatani, cabinet secretary of the Kenyan National Treasury (effectively the country's finance minister). Although the economy expanded by 5.4% in 2019, growth nosedived to just 0.6% in 2020 owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. It was forecast to expand by 7% in 2021, according to official National Treasury figures. But on March 26, Kenya's president Uhuru Kenyatta put the capital, Nairobi, and its surrounding four counties back under lockdown restrictions because of the region's high infection rate.