A new World Bank report notes that the city has been designed to largely cater for residents with cars, giving them easy access to opportunities including means of economic empowerment. Due to the challenges of getting to their work places, productivity among matatu users remains low. “A central resident can access only 20 per cent of all jobs within an hour using the matatu network,” the report said. The report adds that matatu users in Nairobi had access to only 5.8 per cent of all jobs in the city within 45 minutes. Fragmentation prevents labor market pooling — leaving workers with access to few jobs, keeping productivity low, and locking cities into the non-tradable sector,” said the report.

Source: Standard Digital February 14, 2017 18:33 UTC