Thursday, March 28, 2024

Alarm As Poverty Levels In Kenya On The Rise Again

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Kenya’s 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– a pan-African, non-partisan research network—shows Kenya’s Lived Poverty Index (LPI) has risen from 0.93 to 1.06 between 2014 and 2018.

The LPI score ranges along a five-point scale from 0 (which can be thought of as no lived poverty) to four (which would reflect a constant absence of all basic necessities).

This is in contrast to between 2005 and 2015 when Afrobarometer surveys tracked a steady improvement in the living conditions of the average African, which measures basic necessities such as food, clean water, health care, heating fuel, and cash income). Read more>>

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