Kenya: Where Kenya Is Spending Money On Education - and What's Missing

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There's conclusive evidence that education improves societal well-being. For this reason societies invest heavily in inclusive and quality education. Households play their part by funding their children's education and citizens pay the taxes that support the public education system.

Kenya's budgetary allocation to education in the current financial year stands at 494.8 billion shillings (about US$4.95 billion). This is twice the combined allocations for defence, health and the presidency. Put simply, the education budget is about 5.3% of 2018 GDP.

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