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Looming debt trap: East African economies bogged down by low export base

Ethiopian workers at an apparel factory. The manufacturing sector in the region is growing but not yet large enough to support an export economy. PHOTO FILE | AFP

By  IEA KENYA

Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya all harbour the desires for economic and political federation of a kind.

The synchronisation of public budget readings is just the latest in a line of substantive if hesitant steps towards its realisation.

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