Charting Kenya's path through its debt crisis
UN-commissioned report
East Africa
Economic policy & debt analysis
A confidential debt report for a senior UN official ahead of IMF talks
Plato Group's advisers in East Africa were commissioned to produce a confidential thirty-page report for a senior UN official, examining the national debt crisis facing Kenya ahead of a critical round of IMF negotiations. The report traced the sources of the country's growing public debt over the past decade, setting out the burden held both domestically and externally.
It went on to assess the state of bilateral IMF negotiations and the most likely scenarios from the next round of discussions, alongside the political environment shaping difficult economic policymaking in Kenya. Our specialists set out a series of proposals designed to ease the country's debt burden and address the wider economic challenges it faces.