Powerful work documenting how 5% annual growth can coexist with a 37% rise in extrme poverty. That 68 shillings out of every 100 going to debt repayment really crystalizes the structural bind Kenya's in, where IMF conditionality essentially locks the country into a regresive tax system that bleeds the poor. The data on women holding just 13% of agricultural land rights, dropping to 4% among the poorest households, shows how inequality compounds across multiple dimensions simultaneuosly. Would be curious if Oxfam has modeled what a wealth tax on the richest 125 Kenyans could fund in terms of basic services versus the current VAT-heavy approach.
Powerful work documenting how 5% annual growth can coexist with a 37% rise in extrme poverty. That 68 shillings out of every 100 going to debt repayment really crystalizes the structural bind Kenya's in, where IMF conditionality essentially locks the country into a regresive tax system that bleeds the poor. The data on women holding just 13% of agricultural land rights, dropping to 4% among the poorest households, shows how inequality compounds across multiple dimensions simultaneuosly. Would be curious if Oxfam has modeled what a wealth tax on the richest 125 Kenyans could fund in terms of basic services versus the current VAT-heavy approach.