Kenya - 2016 - Trade, Industry and Investment

Kenya Leather Industry Diagnosis, Strategy and Action Plan

Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives

This document provides a detailed analysis of Kenya’s leather industry. It focuses on the challenges and recommends solution to them. It mentions that the leather sector’s costs of production are subsidized to the extent that government policies (and their poor enforcement) fail to force producers to internalize environmental and social costs associated with sustaining the sector, including most importantly, water resource clean up, long term health care, and natural resource replenishment costs.

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January 2022

This document provides a detailed analysis of Kenya’s leather industry. It focuses on the challenges and recommends solution to them. It mentions that the leather sector’s costs of production are subsidized to the extent that government policies (and their poor enforcement) fail to force producers to internalize environmental and social costs associated with sustaining the sector, including most importantly, water resource clean up, long term health care, and natural resource replenishment costs.

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