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    "content": "employment in Kenya increased from 70 per cent in 2000 to 83 per cent in 2012. In this period, around 10 million people were employed in the informal sector. As it is, neither the public sector nor the formal private sector is able to create enough jobs for the expanding labour force thus self employment is increasingly the only alternative given growing unemployment rates. However, the national unemployment rate is about 10 per cent which is high for a country with a large informal and traditional sector. Youth unemployment rates are usually higher. About 80 per cent of the unemployed are young people aged below 34 years of age. Most informal sectors activities are often not officially registered formally and neither regulated nor meet legal operational requirements. At times, some of them operate underground without following the laid down procedures in the formal spheres. The lack of clarity on this precise size of the informal sector translates to the absence of certainty on the contribution to the economy knowing that such enterprises play a big role in generation of employment and incomes. In a case of street vending, for instance, which is popular all over Kenya and which a large number of Kenyans depend on for their livelihood, street vendors provide a valuable service for availing an outlet for industries to market and sell their goods to the rest of the country and at the same time engage youth and women in gainful employment. Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, it is obvious that the informal sector requires little per"
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