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Over the last two decades Kenyans have suffered serious reverses in economic and social well being. In its early years of independence, Kenya was the most prosperous country in East Africa, its GDP per capita rising by 38 per cent between 1960 and 1980. The following two decades to 2000, however, recorded a zero increase in per capita GDP, while per capita income in 2003, at US $ 360 was lower than in 1990. Poverty incidents rose from 49 per cent in 1990 to 55 per cent in 2001.