Progress Towards Development in Kenya

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Kenya is a former British colony that is located on the Eastern part of Africa. The administrative capital of Kenya is Nairobi and is one of the most diversified cities in East Africa. Other major cities in Kenya include the port of Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru and Eldoret, all of which play an important role in Kenya's march toward economic growth and development through the provision of administrative functions. Kenya is one of the important and rather developed countries. If we talk about South-East African region, it is currently striving for their development in social and economic sector and other various areas as well, but it required intensive efforts in right dimension at right time. Various organizations local and global have been supporting Kenya in its development process. Here we cater the social and economic problems, issues, progress in Kenya and their remedies. There are various factors, which influence both social and economical sector such as, environmental (internal and external both), regional issues, etc. Kenya’s Economic Crisis In the early eighties, Kenya was regarded as one of the fairly stable countries in East Africa, but those times are far-gone and the current economic situation is appalling. Kenya's greatest shortcoming is due to a shortage of people with the creative capacity and power to set a long-term development process in motion. With an illiteracy rate of 21.9 percent, a substantial proportion of the Kenyan population is denied that technical know-how that is becoming more and more important in today's world of complex and dynamic technology. In order for a labor force to be more productive, more of a country's people need to be highly educated. The structure of both the formal and informal inst...

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