Interesting piece of advice to students👍
“Curious students are usually best performers regardless of what they have studied” ~
@IEAKwame
Source:
@mtandaomanenos
Today, 2 students from Kenyatta University Economics Students Association (
@kuesaku
) visited the
@IEAKenya
. They had a brief discussion with
@IEAKwame
about possible mentorship programme and
#Finacebill2023
HAPPENING NOW: Launch of the Macro Policy Study "And Then Floods...The document provides a critical assessment of IMF conditionality on Kenya, 2021 - present.
"The budget speech this year was underwhelming. Looking at the Finance Bill, which contains the tax code, it's so complex & imposes a great burden on firms, house holds & working people."
@IEAKwame
👇🏿
📣 The Adam Smith Scholars Program is now accepting applications!
This program is designed to elevate the debate on public policy in 🇰🇪 by selecting & training young, astute & independent minds to understand & interpret economic events.
To apply, 📩 admin
@ieakenya
.or.ke
"If you study economics as a subject to get a job, you will be fulfilled. But you can only be truly fulfilled if you study economics as a method and a way of thinking to help you analyse job and business situations, or learn to create value in one way or another" ~
@IEAKwame
Message from the CEO,
@IEAKwame
in celebration for being ranked position 2nd in 🇰🇪 and 7th in the Continent according to the 2020 Global go-to Think Tank Index Report by
@LauderInstitute
👇
"If you look at the public discourse, everybody seems to think that the solution to Kenya’s debt distress problem is to stop borrowing. Unfortunately, that is not possible because if the government stops borrowing today government operations will come to a crash" ~
@IEAKwame
📌You're invited to our Webinar
#20of2021
on: Does Kenya Need an Amnesty Policy for Economic Crimes?
DATE: 18TH May 2021
TIME: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM (East African Time)
Our speaker will be Dr. David Ndii
If you really want to understand the issue of public debt in Kenya, please tune in TOMORROW to X Spaces at 7:00 PM EAT. We are in serious trouble, people. This country needs to shape up!
#economicliteracy
Link:
RETWEET🔁“Kenya’s alcohol policies should not be exclusive but should encompass a mixed approach involving problem directed policies & Intervention Policies. They have been proven to work elsewhere,” ~
@IEAKwame
𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟐𝟗𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑:
@IEAKwame
was invited by the Executive Office of the President as a panelist during the consultative meeting themed “Improving Governance & Entrenching Zero Tolerance to Corruption in the public service.
''Kenyans regardless of what your political orientation or your ideology is, don't accept the trivialization of the idea about how this economy is going to be reorganized.''
@IEAKwame
Happening Tomorrow!
✨Join
@IEAKwame
and the
@IEAKenya
team tomorrow as they break down the
#FinanceBill2024
in an interesting manner🆒.
Starting from 11.00 am here:
"Slums are as a result of poverty & not as a result of lack of houses. The existence of unplanned settlements or slums in urban neighbourhoods is not evidence of a housing problem. Rather, it's evidence of an income & employment problem"
@IEAKwame
"Right now, the payments are being made to a company that is running it, that is Chinese, a train that is running on Chinese software and in Chinese language, so it's just a BIG fine mess that Kenyans will pay for, for a long time 😢" -
@IEAKwame
"Food provision largely is an income problem, so if people don’t have incomes it doesn’t matter whether production exists & this is where I have a problem with AU & African advocates, most of the plans are production related -
@IEAKwame
Food
#supplychains
Nairobi and Kampala have become East Africa’s illicit financial flow (IFFs) capitals that receive or process billions of dollars in stolen funds from South Sudan, fuelling inflation at home & financing civil war in the world’s youngest nation. LINK:
"Southern Voice (
@SVoice2030
) has done a successful job in trying to bring to the fore the ideas of think tanks that are based in lower middle-income countries phrasing them as part of the global debate ~
@IEAKwame
#KIPPRAConference2023
Happening this afternoon!
You are all invited to join our 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 with
@IEAKwame
as he discusses a short story “The Verger” & Insights on how an economy works & how entrepreneurs fit in what might be described today as SMEs.
This afternoon our CEO
@IEAKwame
received officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Enterprise Singapore; Yatin Bin YUSOF-High Commissioner to Kenya, Victor HUI & Linn NEO where they discussed Kenya’s state of economy, global economic corporation & EAC and AfCTA.
Our CEO
@IEAKwame
will be discussing "National Economic Policy: Towards Moral Safeguards for Securing the Future" on 27 May 2021 at 7:30 pm (EAT).
👉Book your slot here:
"One of the things that the price mechanism allows you to do is to condense as much information as is possible in a single price" -
@IEAKwame
discuss mobilising finance for biodiversity
#conservation
at
@T20org
Dialogue in
#Shillong
.
📹
Earlier today
@IEAKwame
made a presentation on the State of Kenyan economy for 2019- 2021 at the Swedish Embassy in Kenya. In attendance were five Business representatives visiting Kenya to understand the prospects for economic and development cooperation
@IEAKenya
Did you know🤔that Kenya’s economy has been ranked mostly unfree since 1997? Major obstacles to greater economic freedom include a lack of judicial effectiveness, poor government integrity, and grave problems with fiscal health.
You’re invited for a virtual public forum! Join us as we present the results & findings of the two indexes on the comparison of county health system capacity with population risk on 28.04.2020 from 2-4 p.m.👇
It’s time to say goodbye! Adam Smith Scholar (Oskar Holtmann) completes his 3 months internship. He made exemplary intellectual & social contributions to
@IEAKenya
. His intellectual curiosity, openness towards debate & treatment of peers are a hallmark of what we envision.
You are all invited to
@IEAKenya
30th webinar where we will be discussing 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭
🗓️ Wednesday, 8th September 2021
🕒 11:00 AM (EAT)
𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞!!
"Patriotism becomes bad economics when it demands that taxpayers dedicate billions of shillings to recapitalise firms that serve elites, while callously letting 200,000 kids attend worthless village polytechnics because of a shortage of spaces in high schools,
@IEAKwame
"
Hi everyone, welcome to our tweetchat on: The cost of implementing BBI CAB II: Proposals on chapter 8 of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 which is about to start very soon.
@IEAKwame
@annah_kemmy
@Barasa_Moureen
from
@IEAKenya
are ready to answer your questions!
“Kenya’s public
#debt
problem comes from the spending side & not the revenue side. My view is this country is collecting as much revenue as one can collect from the poor people. There are not too many rich people for which the debt solution can come from higher taxes ~
@IEAKwame
"Firm policy responses needed to avoid a drawn-out recession following measures to slow down the spread of
#Covid19
, which have adversely affected business activity." -
@IEAKwame
“Large scale farmers in Kenya appropriate most of the government subsidy. They use that to have food. We might have a bumper harvest but I don’t think for the people whose incomes were crashed by both Covid and inflation, much has changed -
@IEAKwame
#NCBAEconomicForum2023
The IEA just concluded training of CSOs in Kisumu&Bungoma counties on Public Sector Accountability &Kenya's Public Procurement System. The objective is to build literacy on access and use of procurement data for evidence-based advocacy towards a more transparent&efficient system.
Join us this 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐘 on
#TwitterSpaces
for an insightful discussion with
@IEAKenya
PFM team and
@IEAKwame
as we unpack the National Budget of FY 2023/24.👇
We recently launched a study titled "And Then, Floods..
A critical macroeconomic assessment of IMF Conditionality on Kenya, 2021-present"
Ten Antecedents 🧵👇
1. Low Growth: From 1990-2019, Kenya per capita real GDP, measured in 2017 International US$, grew by just a
quarter.
The result of the simulation in Table 2 shows that by the President’s delay🤔in appointing the 41 Judges recommended by
@jsckenya
, the capability of the three courts was reduced by 71% because the 41 judges would have resolved 9051 more cases.⏬
Did you know❓That
@IEAKenya
was ranked 2nd in 🇰🇪 and 7th in Sub Saharan Africa, according to the 2020 Global Index Report by the Lauder Institute of the University of Pennsylvania.
#IEAIsAThinkTank
Kenyans at the base of the pyramid experience economic hardship each time an out-of-pocket payment is necessary. It is often too big in relation to a household’s monetary ability.
via
@SVoice2030
“I chose applied statistics & economics as a discipline because I always wanted to effectively conduct research & present accurate results by using proper data collection methods, & employing the correct analyses.” Melody Njeru, M & E Officer.
@IEAKwame
#MEETTHEIEAFAMILY
Earlier today
@IEAKwame
,
@LeoKemboi
and
@Jackykagume
made a presentation on East Africa Macroeconomic Review during the Old Mutual Investment Group Conference (E.A) 2023 dubbed "Navigating Opportunities in A Challenging Investment Landscape".
Kwame Owino to PS Hinga: I respect the professionalism within government, but I have to tell you that you’ve got the economics and funding model wrong
#TheBigConversation
@IEAKenya
in response to the
@NAssemblyKE
call for the public to provide their input into the finance Bill 2023 have prepared some comments with a summary which shows various amendments proposed by the bill and justification of each of the proposal 👇
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻! "Fundamental lessons from regional economic communities for the African Continental Free Trade Area: A case study of the East African Community" by
@IEAKenya
@DavidOwiro
@joanakoth1
Based on the
@IEAKenya
's nearly three decades of daily interaction with Kenya's economic data, it is safe to say that the KNBS is one of Kenya's most credible institutions, particularly in terms of data production and integrity.
📡Join the conversation TOMORROW as our speaker Dr.
@DavidNdii
one of the foremost economists in Kenya will be discussing about: Does Kenya need an Amnesty Policy for Economic Crimes?
👉LINK:
Don't miss this insightful discussion!
IEA has produced research & information on economic & policy issues in Kenya for more than 25 years. But who are the people behind this work? In a series of mini-interviews, our followers will get glimpses into the everyday realities of our researchers. 👉
"Out of the Kshs. 846 Billion deficit, most of it will come from internal sources which are basically domestic borrowing and what this means is that the displacement effect of government borrowing on other private sector firms will continue ~
@IEAKwame
#KEBudget2022_23
The IMF and World Bank are now warning that East Africa’s economies are heading towards economic asymmetry—a situation in which debt servicing will be met at the expense of equally pressing social commitments.
ALL ARE WELCOME! Mark your calendars for the upcoming Tweetchat: Is Implementation of the National Government Budget for FY 2020/21 on Track? This Friday April 23rd at 2:00pm!
#TrackingOurShillingsKE
🗣️Don't miss this upcoming webinar with Sekou Owino, Head of Legal & Training
@NationAfrica
& Waikwa Wanyoike, Litigation Director
@OSFJustice
where they will talk about "Separation of Powers: Implications for Economic Development".🔥
October 10-20, 2022 - Our CEO
@IEAKwame
was invited by Raisina Forum for Future of Diplomacy in New Delhi,🇮🇳 to discuss "Development-Focused Diplomacy: Partnerships of the 21st Century". The event was hosted by
@orfonline
“I actually started out as an intern and have risen from ranks as a research assistant to assistant programme officer thanks to the mentorship and training programmes that I received from my mentors at
@IEAKenya
.” Researcher, Noah Wamalwa.
@IEAKwame
@j2mutua
#MEETTHEIEAFAMILY