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Prices in the Kenyan shilling are written in the form of x/y, where x is the amount in shillings, while y is the amount in cents. An equals sign or hyphen represents zero amount. For example, 50 cents is written as "-/50" and 100 shillings as "100/=" or "100/-". Sometimes the abbreviation KSh is prefixed for distinction. If the amount is ...
The following is a list of Kenya's richest. It is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by Forbes magazine.. Kenya is the largest economy in the East African Community, the 3rd largest economy in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a gross domestic product of US$120.87 billion as of 2020 [1] up from US$70.539 billion in 2017. [2]
Website. NSE.co.ke. The Nairobi Securities Exchange ( NSE) was established in 1954 as the Nairobi Stock Exchange, based in Nairobi the capital of Kenya. It was a voluntary association of stockbrokers in the European community registered under the Societies Act in British Kenya. [4] [5] The exchange had 66 listed companies in February 2021.
50.081 shillings per Int. dollar based on PPP (IMF Oct. 2018) [3] Rank County GDP per capita in KSh. /= GDP per capita in US$ (PPP) 1 Kiambu County : 789,129 6,955 2 Nairobi County: 328,575 6,561 3 Nyandarua County: 317,700 6,344 4 Mombasa County: 271,039 5,412 5 Nakuru County: 245,999 4,912 6 Lamu County: 244,379 4,880 7 Elgeyo-Marakwet ...
The trade balance fluctuates widely because Kenya's main exports are primary commodities subject to the effects of both world prices and weather. In 2005 Kenya's income from exports was about US$3.2 billion. The payment for imports was about US$5.7B, yielding a trade deficit of about US$2.5B.
The East African shilling was introduced to Kenya, Tanganyika, and Uganda in 1921, replacing the short-lived East African florin at a rate of 2 shillings to 1 florin. The florin had been introduced because of increasing silver prices after World War I. At that time, the Indian rupee was the currency of the British East African states.
The shilling was pegged to sterling at a rate of 20 shillings to one pound sterling, making the Somali shilling equivalent to the British shilling. In 1967, it switched its peg to the U.S. dollar on 18 November 1967, when sterling was devalued, giving an implied exchange rate of 1 dollar = 7.14286 shillings.
Goldenberg scandal. The Goldenberg scandal was a political scandal where the Kenyan government was found to have subsidised exports of gold far beyond standard arrangements during the 1990s, by paying the company Goldenberg International 35% more (in Kenyan shillings) than their foreign currency earnings. Although it notionally appears that the ...