Real Business Is in Policy (Part IX): Who Controls the Payment Gate?
Will Kenya’s draft payment rules make it easier and safer for ordinary people to earn, receive and use their money, or tighten the gate without improving the road?
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Real Business Is in Policy (Part VII): The Tender Begins Before the Tender
How tax concessions, financing and equipment-use rules can affect contractor competition, and what evidence is needed to assess public value.
Read articleReal Business Is in Policy (Part VI): Finance the Learning. Prove the Capability.
Financing opens the school gate. Capability is proved when skill, experience, credentials and a first chance can be shown, not when money alone has been counted.
Read articleReal Business Is in Policy (Part V): Who Owns the Gate to Opportunity?
Placement and funding begin the journey. Learning, assessment, credentials and access to work depend on further decisions. Who makes those gates fair?
Read articleReal Business Is in Policy (Part IV): The School Gate and the Debt Ledger
Kenya’s education funding reform asks who gains access today, who repays tomorrow, and who carries the risk when education does not immediately become income.
Read articleReal Business Is in Policy (Part III): Coffee, Cash Crops and the Chief
Part III: Kenya’s coffee economy shows that markets are not merely discovered, they are designed through land, labour, licences, chiefs and power.
Read articleReal Business Is in Policy (Part II): What Kenya’s Post-Vision 2030 Blueprint Could Mean for Enterprise
Part II: Eric Omanga examines President William Ruto’s proposed post-Vision 2030 economic blueprint and asks how national policy can become real markets, enterprises, jobs and public value.
Read articleReal Business Is in Policy (Part I)
The biggest business opportunities often emerge before customers begin buying, when policy defines the rules, redirects money and exposes the solutions society still lacks.
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