Workers’ real wages and policy choices

If the issues are inflation, stagnant wages, caused in part cause by stagnant productivity, what if anything, can say county governments do about it? 

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I had a most wonderful discussion with a group of young professionals last Saturday morning. The discourse was on the decline in real wages in Kenya between 2019 and 2023.

We met in a seminar setting, but were live on two social media platforms. We debated the causes of the decline, and best policy responses. We debated what county governments can do about it, and what kind of politics we want.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.