Global economic growth Stories

Kenya’s Q1 growth steady at 4.9 per cent despite service sector slowdown

Alfred Onyango | Jul 04, 2025

According to the latest quarterly GDP report by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), the plateau in growth is largely due to a slowdown in...

Trump’s protectionist tariffs dent global economic growth prospects to 2.8 per cent

Alfred Onyango | Apr 24, 2025

Were it not for the tariffs, the lender says the global economic growth would have seen only a modest cumulative downgrade of 0.2 percentage point, to...