More consequential to Kenya's debt profile are talks between Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi and Chinese officials to convert the $5bn Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) loan – one of the country's largest infrastructure projects – from dollars to yuan...
Vol 66 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
Finance ministers for Kenya Tanzania and Uganda – John Mbadi Mwigulu Lameck Nchemba and Matia Kasaija – face common challenges: increasing revenues targeting spending more effectively and reducing debt burdens (AC Vol 65 No 13 A fragile recovery)...
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Finance Minister John Mbadi's budget for 2025/26 is days from being finalised and is expected to focus on increasing tax revenue via higher compliance rather than imposing new taxes...
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Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has ruled out any new tax rises in his budget plan for 2025/26 arguing that greater efficiency in revenue collection will be sufficient...
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In truth Ruto and his Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi are in a tight fiscal squeeze...
9bn to $30bn Treasury Secretary John Mbadi's 2025 budget proposes an increase to $32...
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Since being parachuted into the Treasury following the Generation Z protests against last year's Finance Bill in June which led to President William Ruto dismissing his cabinet John Mbadi has walked a tightrope...
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He re-appointed all but six ministers and co-opted five Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) ministers; one of whom John Mbadi was made finance minister and pushed through a less punitive version of the budget that had sparked mass protests...
It is only fair for us to support him as a community in the next general election ' adds Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi the party chairman until his elevation in July...
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Vol 65 No 25 |
- KENYA
- HAITI
1 billion shillings (US$15 million) on the mission so far money that Treasury Secretary John Mbadi says the United States has promised to reimburse...
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