Info grafis: Infrastructure Boom and Food Price Bust in Kenya

The Great Rift valley which is located in the north of Nairobi city is one of the many beautiful landscapes in this country. The access to the Rift Valley can be reached by one and half hour car driving from Nairobi city. Along the way, we will see the beautiful natural scenery from Savannah, pine forest to coffee field. This natural endowment contributes to making tourism hold a significant place in Kenya’s economy. Moreover, this condition spurs Kenya’s government developing adequate infrastructure to linkage not only between tourism sites but also create connectivity between region.

This factor contributes to the current and previous Kenyan governments (Kibaki and now Kenyatta administrations) prioritized investment in the development of infrastructure as the engine of the economic growth. The president Kenyatta’s administration has been successful in landing external investment for infrastructure development. International financial institutions and donors remain important to Kenya's economic growth and development. In recent, Kenyan governments have been completed the development of infrastructure mega project “Nairobi-Mombasa Standard Gauge Railway (SGR)” which cost USD 3.27 billion investment from China. This project already launched on May  31, this year. There is a view that investment in infrastructure (energy, transport, communication, irrigation, and water supply) seen as a foundation for an enabler of economic growth.