{"id":195284,"date":"2025-04-03T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-precision-or-spin-evaluating-kenyan-president-rutos-mid-term-economic-scorecard\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:59:46","slug":"kenya-precision-or-spin-evaluating-kenyan-president-rutos-mid-term-economic-scorecard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-precision-or-spin-evaluating-kenyan-president-rutos-mid-term-economic-scorecard\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Precision or Spin? Evaluating Kenyan President Ruto&#8217;s Mid-Term Economic Scorecard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em>Precision or spin? Evaluating Kenyan president Ruto&#8217;s mid-term economic scorecard<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The government was on the money on GDP growth, the reduction of inflation and the fiscal deficit, and the stability of the shilling.<\/li>\n<li>But diaspora remittances grew by 22.8%, not the claimed 60%. Foreign exchange reserves were also at US$10 billion, but in March 2025, not February. Moreover, they are a moving target and not a fixed milestone as implied.<\/li>\n<li>Annual revenues rose by 22.9% and not 42%, about half the pace&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504030077.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precision or spin? Evaluating Kenyan president Ruto&#8217;s mid-term economic scorecard The government was on the money on GDP growth, the reduction of inflation and the fiscal deficit, and the stability of the shilling. But diaspora remittances grew by 22.8%, not the claimed 60%. Foreign exchange reserves were also at US$10 billion, but in March 2025, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":195285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,3576,51035,4688,430,4524,22799,257,25374,2450,12640,18425,254,13262],"class_list":["post-195284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-economic","tag-evaluating","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-midterm","tag-news","tag-precision","tag-president","tag-rutos","tag-scorecard","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spin"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}