One: a deliberate ''face-Eastwards'' policy and combined with ''out-of-the-box'' imaginative GoK financing options beyond the age-old matrix of "Donor-support'' in public debt financing (domestic borrowing, sovereign bonds, etc), finally have broken Western stranglehold on GoK. Multiplier effect. Eventually even the funds- component from International Funding Agencies (World Bank, IMF) have become voluntary and not prescriptive, nor pegged to their usual economic programs which have had such negative effects on African Economies. Bi-lateral funding no longer attaches the usual big-brother arrogance since these funds are never factored in Kenya's Budgetary Statements. Numerous African Governments' economists and planners have studied and replicated to varying degrees this Kenyan Matrix, and so caused substantial worry to the usual hegemonistic West.
Two: Ethiopian outpaced Kenya in the growth-rate quantum (10% against 5.5% or thereabouts). But that must be seen against the other indicators, a simple one is the comparative chart above - the Economies and Populations for instances are as indicated.
And because the central cog in the Eastern African economic (and socio-politico) dynamics appears clearly to be Kenya, there are deliberate insidious efforts by certain of our Western ''Friends'' to slow down Kenya's movement and force /bargain their re-engagement in Kenya. Wtz will take their usual exceptions about this statement, no doubt!!