Kenya: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

July 7, 2003

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Kenya: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

This selected issues paper assesses Kenya's revenue performance, the labor market, and the health of the banking sector. It analyzes Kenya's revenue potential, tax system, and economic activity while increasing revenues; assesses the labor market; and also notes the nonperforming loans (NPLs) in the Kenyan banking sector, especially in public sector banks, and suggests structural measures to reduce cost pressures in the banking sector, lower the NPLs, and reduce the spread between lending and deposit interest rates. It also provides the detailed statistical appendix of Kenya.

Subject: Commercial banks, Employment, Financial institutions, Informal employment, Labor, Labor markets, Minimum wages, Wages

Keywords: Africa, B. banking system structure, Commercial banks, CR, Employment, ISCR, Kenya, Labor market, Labor markets, Minimum wage, Minimum wages, Production structure, Public sector bank, Revenue performance, Union wage, Wage, Wages

Publication Details

Pages:

81
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2003/200
Stock No:

1KENEA0022003
ISBN:

9781451821093
ISSN:

1934-7685

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