Robina - Infrastructure such as road have serious multiplier.

[RV Pundit]

It's peripheral because folks are happily paying.. something can be created from electricity.

[hk]

https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/access-to-electricity-is-critical-to-africas-growth/ HK according to Rockefeller Foundation research access to electricity can increase household incomes by 39%.What say you.

Yes it can if other variables are addressed. Otherwise you end up with over 880k idle connections https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/companies/Connecting-poor-hands-Kenya-Power-Sh3bn-debt/4003102-4878676-bb1m98/index.html . To make it worse the new connections,  power rate are subsidized adding cost to businesses and "middle class" consumers. Addressing cost of power should have been the priority. A poor person producing nothing wont raise their income by all of sudden having electricity connection. 

[Nefertiti]

You're almost getting it unlike Uhuru and Ruto. Nairobi subway is a no-brainer, not sure what bryan et al are arguing about. The man-hours spent in commute alone are quantifiable as a fraction of the Kenyan economy.

If Uhuru and our fake genius Dr Hustler - had an iota of brains - they would go for subway in Nairobi - optimize mobility for the Nbo-Macha-Kajiado-Kiambu metropolis. That can have proper return. Billions wasted in traffic in Nairobi have been quantified by WB, IMF, IBM, etc - numerously.

Simple math - Nairobi GDP x 4/12 hrs folks waste on the roads daily.

It's a hanging fruit - very exciting obvious opportunity - except to the hare-brained Jubilee.

Planning.. we need real thinkers to re-imagine Nairobi. Not fools like Kidero or Sonko. London is a good example with its "tube" which runs across every corner of the city. The cross-English channel traffic would be crazy without the rail. Addis rail must have copied this. Amsterdam also has a great rail system.. the EU is a good place to study cross-urban infrastructure - with fast easy commute across Ams, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt and name it. But Chinese are the best cheap builders. If wishes were horses we would build our own rail of course.

Design - New York City is a good example. Trump owns a "penthouse" smack in the CBD. Condominia are hot cake - cause most execs rather work at say KICC and live at Times Tower than commute. It is an outdated model that folks must live in the outskirts and work in CBD - what on earth for?? County can work with Housing Ministry to craft smart policy. You open a commercial in CBD we charge an arm n a leg like betting. You open commercial in the outskirts we subsidize or at least waive the levies. Same treat for residential - promote decentralization and kill the mental block - ati hapa ni town huko ni estate.

The "town" model is troublesome when poorly planned. There ought to be strict standards in any town, of free space that must be set aside for trees, free movement, parking, before any skyscrapers or high rise building is put up. You should be allowed to only build in a fraction of the land you own. This is the case in alot of the cities in the west.

The problem with CBD is it acting like a huge bus and matatu terminus..not gov office.The solution is railway terminus radiating like a star network and more ring roads circling Nairobi...for road traffic.Also building huge apartments high rises around CBD for people working in CBD like the Ederman 8 34 floors river estate with will ease the mass movement of people.There are lots of gov land near Nairobi towards Eastland that Chinese can turn into mass housing that would be within a walking distance to CBD.

[Nefertiti]

Ruto's voodoo economy. What sectors are booming again?

Prime residential prices in Nairobi slid by 6.5 per cent in the 12 months to March 2019. This is according to the Knight Frank Prime Global Cities Index (PGCI) for the first quarter.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001328597/nairobi-s-luxury-home-prices-continue-falling-oversupply-blamed



High power cost eats into EPZ firms' profit

Cumulatively, firms operating in different EPZs across the country, Mr Gacheru said in a presentation, paid Sh947 million for power last year, compared to Sh772 million in 2017, a 22.7 percent rise.

Other costs that went up included water (17.3 per cent) while salaries paid to their Kenyan employees increased 16.5 per cent.

Local labour was one of the major spending areas where the firms paid Sh11.7 billion to 57,743 employees, up from Sh10 billion in 2017.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001328602/high-power-cost-eats-into-epz-firms-profit

[hk]

Ruto's voodoo economy. What sectors are booming again?

Prime residential prices in Nairobi slid by 6.5 per cent in the 12 months to March 2019. This is according to the Knight Frank Prime Global Cities Index (PGCI) for the first quarter.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001328597/nairobi-s-luxury-home-prices-continue-falling-oversupply-blamed



High power cost eats into EPZ firms' profit

Cumulatively, firms operating in different EPZs across the country, Mr Gacheru said in a presentation, paid Sh947 million for power last year, compared to Sh772 million in 2017, a 22.7 percent rise.

Other costs that went up included water (17.3 per cent) while salaries paid to their Kenyan employees increased 16.5 per cent.

Local labour was one of the major spending areas where the firms paid Sh11.7 billion to 57,743 employees, up from Sh10 billion in 2017.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001328602/high-power-cost-eats-into-epz-firms-profit

The only booming sectors are repo/auctioneers , shylocks and betting . 

[Nefertiti]

The only booming sectors are repo/auctioneers , shylocks and betting . 

Yup. We asked Ruto courtier Pundit for evidence he pointed to construction and financial services. "Construction" is just the SGR and highways. FSS is shylocks and pyramids. What more is needed to prove this "growth" is voodoo?

[RV Pundit]

Stop personalizing issues. The growth from KNBS is broad-based. If one sector is struggling - other sectors are booming. Obviously if you're scourging the internet looking for bad news against the economy or Ruto - you'll find a plenty of those - those of us who focus on positives - will also find our silver lining.

Yup. We asked Ruto courtier Pundit for evidence he pointed to construction and financial services. "Construction" is just the SGR and highways. FSS is shylocks and pyramids. What more is needed to prove this "growth" is voodoo?