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Pledges are fine, but test is in financing them

Kenyans gathered in a political rally.

African elections don’t normally involve debates around the state of public finances. You will not get concrete transaction-level promises on how to reduce, or at least manage, public debt, cut wasteful spending or lessen the tax burden. 

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