Rwanda [in Strategies and priorities for African agriculture]

Despite a remarkable transition to peace and development over the past 10 years, Rwanda is still marked by the consequences of the 1994 genocide. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaged 7.3 percent per year between 1995 and 2006, and public investment has picked up and reached 9.4 percent of GD...

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Autores principales: Diao, Xinshen, Fan, Shenggen, Kanyarukiga, Sam, Yu, Bingxin
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153963
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author Diao, Xinshen
Fan, Shenggen
Kanyarukiga, Sam
Yu, Bingxin
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Fan, Shenggen
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Yu, Bingxin
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Yu, Bingxin
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description Despite a remarkable transition to peace and development over the past 10 years, Rwanda is still marked by the consequences of the 1994 genocide. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaged 7.3 percent per year between 1995 and 2006, and public investment has picked up and reached 9.4 percent of GDP in 2007. With security and political stability restored and the business environment improved, private investment has risen from 6 percent in 2001 to an estimated 9 percent of GDP in recent years (Rwanda, MINECOFIN 2008). Progress has also been made in improving education and health indicators. For examples, the number of primary school students rebounded to pre-genocide long-term levels only five years after the conflict. Today Rwanda’s gross primary school enrollment ratio is higher than in most other Sub-Saharan countries with similar income levels, and the number of students in secondary school has almost tripled since 1996 (Lopez and Wodon 2005). Moreover, in terms of health indicators, World Bank (2008a) estimates that, while infant mortality increased from 85 to 137 per thousand between 1988–92 and 1992–94, it has since receded to 97.5 per thousand in 2006.
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spelling CGSpace1539632025-11-06T04:12:49Z Rwanda [in Strategies and priorities for African agriculture] Diao, Xinshen Fan, Shenggen Kanyarukiga, Sam Yu, Bingxin economic growth agriculture agricultural sector farming poverty livestock rural development public investment agricultural growth public expenditure Despite a remarkable transition to peace and development over the past 10 years, Rwanda is still marked by the consequences of the 1994 genocide. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaged 7.3 percent per year between 1995 and 2006, and public investment has picked up and reached 9.4 percent of GDP in 2007. With security and political stability restored and the business environment improved, private investment has risen from 6 percent in 2001 to an estimated 9 percent of GDP in recent years (Rwanda, MINECOFIN 2008). Progress has also been made in improving education and health indicators. For examples, the number of primary school students rebounded to pre-genocide long-term levels only five years after the conflict. Today Rwanda’s gross primary school enrollment ratio is higher than in most other Sub-Saharan countries with similar income levels, and the number of students in secondary school has almost tripled since 1996 (Lopez and Wodon 2005). Moreover, in terms of health indicators, World Bank (2008a) estimates that, while infant mortality increased from 85 to 137 per thousand between 1988–92 and 1992–94, it has since receded to 97.5 per thousand in 2006. 2012 2024-10-01T13:58:38Z 2024-10-01T13:58:38Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153963 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Diao, Xinshen; Fan, Shenggen; Kanyarukiga, Sam; Yu, Bingxin 2012. Rwanda. In Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: Economywide perspectives from country studies, ed. Xinshen Diao, James Thurlow, Samuel Benin, and Shenggen Fan. Chapter 7. Pg. 165-210. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153963
spellingShingle economic growth
agriculture
agricultural sector
farming
poverty
livestock
rural development
public investment
agricultural growth
public expenditure
Diao, Xinshen
Fan, Shenggen
Kanyarukiga, Sam
Yu, Bingxin
Rwanda [in Strategies and priorities for African agriculture]
title Rwanda [in Strategies and priorities for African agriculture]
title_full Rwanda [in Strategies and priorities for African agriculture]
title_fullStr Rwanda [in Strategies and priorities for African agriculture]
title_full_unstemmed Rwanda [in Strategies and priorities for African agriculture]
title_short Rwanda [in Strategies and priorities for African agriculture]
title_sort rwanda in strategies and priorities for african agriculture
topic economic growth
agriculture
agricultural sector
farming
poverty
livestock
rural development
public investment
agricultural growth
public expenditure
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153963
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