Question: What will make ‘Kenya Grow’?

We will start by defining growth. From (Wikipedia) definition, it is an increase

in some quantity over time. The quantity can be:

1) Physical - growth in terms of GDP i.e economic growth and financial

growth in the amount of money, and

2) Abstract – become more complex, more mature.

In Social Science growth will be in terms of human development (humanity),

Human development (psychology) or Personal development "Personal
growth" or population growth

In order to measure and compare, growth needs to be quantifiable. Hence,

normally growth will be in terms of income and Africa in general has been
the worst in this aspect. One unique school of thought even suggests
merging them. United states of Africa. Economic growth is demonstrated by
an outward shift of the production possibility curve. Its effect is that it will
increase both the amount of capital and consumer goods that a country can
potentially produce. And its only a bigger block that can have a larger
unitary voice that competing single unit can not and in actual fact, even
negatively affect commodity prices as is always done in global markets and
maybe isn’t that simply the basis of divide and rule strategy in practice?.
Remember its only growth in the national cake that may lead to an increase
in economy and not how the cake is shared

Standard of living is very hard to understand. A basic model for measuring

"material" standard of living would include Mean Income/GDP Per Capita,
material goods available/consumed, economic growth and unemployment.

However, "measured" material well-being tells only part of the story. In many
circumstances, "personal" and Quality of Life attributes and recourses make
one nation or society an appealing place to live, raise a family, visit or trade
with.

In a rich life happiness is not guaranteed. In other words happiness is a state

of mind, and money doesn't always make one happy, it just pays the bills
and puts food on the table. You may have a career but you may not like
working that job. Smart groups Cut loose and prefer dancing to the beat of
my own drum. So how do we measure "poverty"?

The concept of gross national happiness (GNH) was developed in an attempt

to define an indicator that measures quality of life or social progress in more
holistic and psychological terms than GDP. As a chief economic indicator,
GDP has numerous flaws long known to economists. GDP measures the
amount of commerce in a country, but counts remedial and defensive
expenditures (such as the costs of security, police, pollution clean up, etc.)
as positive contributions to commerce. A better measure of economic well-
being would deduct such costs, and add in other non-market benefits (such
as volunteer work, unpaid domestic work, and unpriced ecosystem services)
in arriving at an indicator of well-being. "Beyond GDP" goes to measure
progress neither as the mere increase in commerce, nor as an increase in
specifically economic well-being, but as an increase in general well-being as
people themselves subjectively reporting it. Gross National Happiness is a
strong contributor to this and discards measurements of commercial
transactions as a key indicator and instead directly assess changes in the
social and psychological well-being of populations.

The term was coined in 1972 by Bhutan's former King Jigme Singye
Wangchuck, who has opened up Bhutan to the age of modernization. He
used the phrase to signal his commitment to building an economy that would
serve Bhutan's unique culture based on Buddhist spiritual values thereby
developing a sophisticated survey instrument to measure the population's
general level of well-being. Like many psychological and social indicators,
GNH is somewhat easier to state than to define with mathematical precision.

The four pillars of GNH are; the promotion of sustainable development,

preservation and promotion of cultural values, conservation of the natural
environment, and establishment of good governance. At this level of
generality, the concept of GNH is transcultural--a nation need not be
Buddhist in order to value sustainable development, cultural integrity,
ecosystem conservation, and good governance.

In Conclusion, individual growth and development will tantamount to national

growth and development. Not only must that be financial but psychological
too. Yes, infrastructure must grow through national development programs.
That is key and a necessity and we can benchmark that easily with other
developing states like Middle East and Asian counterparts and not
necessarily limiting ourselves to just regional, neighboring countries as that
may not offer good competition. The state should provide adequate basic
requirement water, energy, education, health and tele communication
network to all so that the focus moves further to the next level of satisfaction
rather than the habitual cycle of poverty, hunger, disease, corruption and
war. This and only this should be the main focus of Kenya government. Once
these are provided and sufficient to all, I strongly believe, Kenya will move to
the next level of development and global happiness ranking. This will only be
achieved through honest, integrity and hard working individuals with high
level of education and moral values that see life in more dimensions and
understand that their call is to ‘leave a place better than they found It’.

References:
Wikipedia.