Macro-financial risk
2026-04-26
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Kenya After the Finance Bill: Gen Z Veto, Ruto Reset, and the Macroeconomic Adjustment
The June 2024 Finance Bill protests forced President Ruto to withdraw a KES 346 billion tax package, reshape the cabinet, and reopen a fiscal hole that the IMF Extended Fund Facility, a USD 1.5 billion Eurobond at 10.375 percent, and a CBK easing cycle from 13.00 to 11.25 percent have only partially closed.
Between June 18 and June 25, 2024 a self organized Gen Z movement turned the Finance Bill 2024 into a constitutional crisis. Parliament was breached on June 25, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights logged at least 60 deaths, and on June 26 William Ruto withdrew the bill, vetoing his own KES 346.7 billion revenue plan. The fiscal ...