Maureen Barasa

Where has the IMF gone? Post date: Wed, Jul 2, 2025 Category: Fiscal PolicyIMFPublic Debt By: Kwame Owino, Maureen Barasa, Peter Doyle, Some Kenyans will be only too happy that the IMF negotiators have been missing in action in Nairobi. Except matters are not so simple. After the last IMF disbursement to Kenya in November 2024, the Kenyan government abandoned the program.

What you need to know: Kenya’s programme with the IMF had until June 2024 proved successful for debt collection on behalf of domestic and foreign debtors. Kenya’s public debt frames its policy options, and our debt-sustainability analysis calls for a medium-term primary surplus of 0.5 per cent of GDP.

Post date: Tue, May 13, 2025 Category: Fiscal Policy By: Maureen Barasa, Kenya’s economy is facing increasing fiscal challenges. These are rising expenditure that outpaces revenue, thus creating budget and fiscal deficits as shown in Table 1 below, increasing public debt levels, and external economic shocks that reveal weaknesses in Kenya’s fiscal framework.