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Kenya, the largest economy in Eastern Africa, recorded 6.1 percent growth in 2006. Over the past five years, the Nairobi Stock Exchange main index rose 787 percent, making it one of the world's best performing markets. Also, Kenya is among leaders in a short list of African countries that manage lucrative hedge funds.
Excellent reasons to invest in Kenya
- Good range of tax treaties and investment promotion and protection agreements. more...
- A stable government. more...
- Business friendly regulatory reforms. more...
- Large pool of skilled English speaking enterprising workers. more...
- Strategic location as a regional financial, communication and transportation hub. more...
- Fully liberalized economy. more...
- Preferential market access to within the region and the E.U. more...
- Well established local and foreign private sector. more...
For particular opportunities in growth sectors, see the Kenya Investment Authority
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QUOTABLE QUOTES "Kenya is among five other African nations that could rival 'Asian Tigers' by 2015." “Kenya has gone share crazy. There is a mad rush for seats when the [Nairobi Stock Exchange] doors open at 10:30 a.m. Sharp-suited businessmen jostle with taxi drivers wearing hand-me downs; women with sleek mobile phones squeeze in next to farmers from the countryside." __________ "We have several stock market billionaires [1bn shillings equals $15m]. We've stopped counting the multimillionaires." |