Our own measure of poverty, Sh980 a month in rural areas, is well below the international standard. Therefore, when the Government says 47 per cent of rural dwellers live in poverty, it is being economical with the figures. If we apply uniformly the international measure of Sh2,370 a month, it becomes clear that Kenyans are very poor, indeed. As a matter of fact, they could be poorer today than at any other time since their ancestors took off the bark cloth and the animal skin. There are two facts that we can't run away from.
Money attracts money.
Globalisation is Western capitalism internationalised. Global capital crosses borders every second in search of the highest return. We, in the Third World, are weak and oppressed. Weak because we are at a structural disadvantage. At a disadvantage because the policies foisted on us destroy our internal markets and our industries and force us to export primary goods.