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Kenyan manufacturing sector at a crossroads
Kenyan workers prepare clothes for export under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) at the United Aryan Export Processing Zone (EPZ) factory in Ruaraka, Nairobi.
Kenya possesses the installed capacity, the workforce, and the technical expertise to produce a wide array of industrial and consumer products locally.
Yet imports continue to surge while home factories operate below capacity. This is the defining contradiction of Kenya's economic development, and it is a deep structural problem that our policymakers, regional leaders, and local business executives can no longer afford to ignore.
