{"id":5791,"date":"2019-10-08T08:30:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T05:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"world-bank-report-calls-for-more-transparency-over-kenyan-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/08\/world-bank-report-calls-for-more-transparency-over-kenyan-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank Report Calls For More Transparency Over Kenyan Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Paul\nRedfern<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nWorld Bank has called for more transparency from African countries when it\ncomes to managing their external debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a\nnew report released this week, the World Bank says that \u201cfor both borrowers and\ncreditors to safeguard debt sustainability, and for governments to design\neffective macroeconomic policies, debt transparency is critical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\nadds that \u201caccurate and comprehensive information on the levels of debt, as\nwell as its composition, is more necessary than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nreport says that Kenya\u2019s external debt is at the highest figure it has ever\nbeen and now exceeds the maximum recommended level in relation to Gross\nNational Income (GNI) according to the World Bank report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Current\nKenyan debt levels stand at $26,830 million, more than three times the level\nthey were in 2010 ($8856) and represent 34 percent of GNI as well as two and a\nhalf times the total value of Kenyan exports\u2026.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/news\/World-Bank-report-calls-for-more-transparency\/539546-5298624-ni5lbt\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Redfern The World Bank has called for more transparency from African countries when it comes to managing their external debt. In a new report released this week, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}