Ladies and Gentlemen, it is now my distinct honour and pleasure to invite His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya and Commander-In-Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces, to deliver his Keynote Address. Karibu, Your Excellency! 3
This is evident in Graph 11. The left hand panel shows, for each country, average employment growth over the past two years relative to the long-term average. Similarly, the right hand panel shows recent GDP growth rates relative to the long-term averages. The pattern is reasonably clear: employment growth has been quite strong relative to historical trends, but output growth has not.