TAG: Energy
The past few years have come to be defined by major economic restructuring, encompassing government institutions, investment funds, oil and gas, financial services and education. Leadership across the emirate continues to embrace these changes, creating more efficient institutions better equipped to handle challenging times. Continuing to build competencies outside oil and gas, and furthering the knowledge economy, will be crucial to achieving the emirate’s long-term goals.
The past few years have come to be defined by major economic restructuring, encompassing government institutions, investment funds, oil and gas, financial services and education. Leadership across the emirate continues to embrace these changes, creating more efficient institutions better equipped to handle challenging times. Continuing to build competencies outside oil and gas, and furthering the knowledge economy, will be crucial to achieving the emirate’s long-term goals.
As the largest economy in the EAC, Kenya is a major player in both the region and sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. Over the past few decades, its market has transformed from being largely agrarian into one of the most diversified and innovative on the continent. It was sub-Saharan Africa’s fifth-largest economy in 2015, ranked 11th in inbound foreign direct investment and is one of the few countries in Africa that is not primarily dependent on extractive revenues.