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Ingenious ways businesses are coping with high living cost

The ingenuity of the Kenyan people is their greatest asset. [iStockphoto]

How are ordinary men and women reacting to economic hard times as prices of commodities rise because of the Covid-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine? We hope that the sixth wave will be milder. I had even forgotten how to wear a mask.

The tragedy of inflation or rising prices is that wages and salaries do not rise commensurately. At times, workers have to withdraw their services to get a pay rise. Railway workers are doing that in the UK.

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