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Nairobi \u2014 Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has pushed back against critics who dismiss Kenya’s ambition to attain first-world status, insisting the country is firmly on course to become a developed economy within the lifetime of the current generation.<\/em><\/p>\n Kindiki said pessimistic comparisons that cite Singapore’s small size to argue Kenya cannot follow a similar path miss the broader context of the country’s development model.<\/p>\n “Those who say Singapore is too small to be compared to Kenya should…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has pushed back against critics who dismiss Kenya’s ambition to attain first-world status, insisting the country is firmly on course to become a developed economy within the lifetime of the current generation. Kindiki said pessimistic comparisons that cite Singapore’s small size to argue Kenya cannot follow a similar path […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":217336,"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":[258,256,4376,4688,430,43933,257,254,9711,5093],"class_list":["post-217335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confident","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kindiki","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transition","tag-world"],"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\/217335","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=217335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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