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Kenya: A look at the balance sheet

Kenya’s ongoing political crisis is drawing attention to its fragile balance sheet. Our core view is that policymakers should be able to manage the situation. Even if the currency were to weaken sharply, the resulting rise in the country’s FX debt burden would be painful, but not hugely destabilising.

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