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Kenya is a lower middle income economy, with Kenya's GDP hitting $150 billion as of 2024. This is due to increasing technology innovation services. Although Kenya's economy is the largest and most developed in eastern and Central Africa, 63% (2023/2024) of its population lives below the international poverty line. [1]
The Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP) is BOMA's two-year poverty graduation program, which uses a similar approach to a graduation model performed in six countries [4] that was mostly considered by the New York Times as “enormously successful.” [5] This program is implemented in the Marsabit and Samburu counties of Northern Kenya where the poverty rate was 71% in 2016 (25.8% higher ...
The international poverty rate used by the World Bank is used in the following list. The estimates can therefore differ from other estimates, like the national poverty rate. Poverty is a significant problem in Kenya. According to estimates by Oxfam, the richest 0.1 percent in Kenya own more wealth than the bottom 99.9%. [1]
Rural poverty refers to situations where people living in non-urban regions are in a state or condition of lacking the financial resources and essentials for living. It takes account of factors of rural society, rural economy, and political systems that give rise to the marginalization and economic disadvantage found there. [1]
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Approximately 9 million people live in extreme poverty in Kenya. 7.8 million live in rural areas, while 1.2 million live in urban areas. General poverty incidence is higher in rural areas than in urban centers. [12] This urban and rural divide of Kenya entails a difference in access to education, food, healthcare, and employment. [13]
Widespread poverty in many parts of the country has greatly lead to over-exploitation of the limited resources in Kenya. Cutting down of trees to create more land for cultivation, charcoal burning business, quarrying among other social and occupational practices are the major threats of environmental degradation due to poverty in rural Kenya.
Sarah, the oldest of seven kids, lives in rural Missouri. Her single mother has struggled to support the family and now Sarah faces an uncertain path. Sarah once dreamed of becoming a radiation ...