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Mega projects move Kenya up ladder of global connectedness
Wednesday December 16 2020
By KEVIN ROTICH
Summary
Latest DHL Global Connectedness Index shows that Kenya rose to position 137 in 2020 from 133 in 2017.
African countries whose connectedness improved in the period are Sudan (+10), Niger (+7), Tanzania (+5) and Gambia (+5).
Angola (-10), Malawi (-6), Guinea (-5), Madagascar (-5) and Seychelles (-4) saw biggest drops.
Kenya’s global connectedness rose by five places to 133 this year due to an increase in international flows of trade, capital, information and people.
This was boosted by the government’s investment’s on mega-infrastructural projects such as roads and rails. These include the Sh31 billion Thika Road, the Sh327 billion Standard Gauge Railway, the ongoing Sh59 billion Nairobi Expressway and Sh2.5 trillion Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) corridor project.