{"id":8632,"date":"2020-03-17T08:21:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8632"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:55","slug":"alarm-as-poverty-levels-in-kenya-on-the-rise-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/03\/17\/alarm-as-poverty-levels-in-kenya-on-the-rise-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarm As Poverty Levels In Kenya On The Rise Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya\u2019s\npoverty level is back on an upswing, a new survey shows, dealing a blow to\nplans to improve the lives of ordinary people by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A\nreport by Afrobarometer&#8211; a pan-African, non-partisan research network\u2014shows\nKenya\u2019s Lived Poverty Index (LPI) has risen from 0.93 to 1.06 between 2014 and\n2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nLPI score ranges along a five-point scale from 0 (which can be thought of as no\nlived poverty) to four (which would reflect a constant absence of all basic\nnecessities).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This\nis in contrast to between 2005 and 2015 when Afrobarometer surveys tracked a\nsteady improvement in the living conditions of the average African, which measures\nbasic necessities such as food, clean water, health care, heating fuel, and\ncash income). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/datahub\/Alarm-as-poverty-levels-in-Kenya-on-the-rise-again\/3815418-5493254-12aoshaz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s poverty level is back on an upswing, a new survey shows, dealing a blow to plans to improve the lives of ordinary people by 2030. A report by Afrobarometer&#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8633,"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-8632","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\/8632","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=8632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}