Nairobi ranked 8th on World Bank list of rich, poor counties

Nairobi ranked 8th on World Bank list of rich, poor counties

Nairobi ranked 8th on World Bank list of rich, poor counties

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    The report, which was published last week, shows that the county governed by William Kabogo has a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of $1,785 followed by Nyeri ($1,503), Kajiado ($1,466), Nakuru ($1,413), and Kwale ($1,406).
    The findings of the World Bank survey differ sharply with the Commission on Revenue Allocation’s (CRA) June 2013 report, which listed the richest and poorest counties based on multiple national surveys.
    The CRA named Kajiado as the richest county followed by Kirinyaga, Meru, Lamu and Kiambu, having relied on the poverty index as captured in the 2005 Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey.
    The World Bank report is, therefore, expected to help shape the revenue sharing debate that has persisted in the Senate over the past four months, besides guiding investors where to take their money. 

A newly released World Bank report has ranked Kiambu as Kenya’s richest county and Mandera the poorest, casting doubts on the quality of official data that is used to share revenue among the 47 devolved units.
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The report, which was published last week, shows that the county governed by William Kabogo has a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of $1,785 followed by Nyeri ($1,503), Kajiado ($1,466), Nakuru ($1,413), and Kwale ($1,406).

Counties located in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands, including Mandera ($267), Bomet ($282), Elgeyo Marakwet ($293), Samburu ($298) and West Pokot with $307 dominate the bottom end of the list.

The findings of the World Bank survey differ sharply with the Commission on Revenue Allocation’s (CRA) June 2013 report, which listed the richest and poorest counties based on multiple national surveys.

The CRA named Kajiado as the richest county followed by Kirinyaga, Meru, Lamu and Kiambu, having relied on the poverty index as captured in the 2005 Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey.

Turkana was the least endowed county with a poverty score of 67.5 followed by Mandera, Samburu, Marsabit and Wajir, according to the CRA report.

In providing the GDP per capita of each county, the World Bank has filled a huge data gap, which the CRA identified in its latest report as the missing piece of the jig-saw puzzle that is revenue sharing.

“Perhaps the most glaring omission is information on county contributions to Kenya’s GDP, which to date has not been disaggregated below the national level,” said the commission’s chairman Micah Cheserem in the latest report dubbed County Fact Sheets.

The core mandate of the Cheserem-led commission is to make recommendations on revenue sharing between the national and county governments.

The World Bank report is, therefore, expected to help shape the revenue sharing debate that has persisted in the Senate over the past four months, besides guiding investors where to take their money.

“In addition to affecting how resources are shared, including the revenue sharing formula, the report can considerably affect resource allocation within individual counties,” the World Bank report says.

GDP per capita — national output divided by total population — is used as an indicator of economic performance and concentration of wealth in a given location but does not offer any insight into how that wealth is shared.

Nairobi 'overrated'

The report, however, dismisses the common belief that Nairobi, the capital, has the highest concentration of Kenya’s wealth – having clocked a per capita wealth of $1,081 to finish in eighth position, one spot ahead of Mombasa with a GDP per capita of $935.

The report puts Nairobi’s share of Kenya’s GDP at 12.7 per cent, dispelling the notion that the city accounts for more than 60 per cent of national output.


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