Rwanda Economic Update, February 2016 : Rwanda at Work

Rwanda’s growth rates during the past few years exceeded the growth rates of developing countries, except for in 2013 when Rwanda’s growth decelerated to 4.7 percent. Among the 181 economies where 2014 gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate data...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: World Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Kigali 2016
Subjects:
JOB
MOV
WTO
GDP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/03/26010807/rwanda-economic-update-rwanda-work
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24023
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Summary:Rwanda’s growth rates during the past few years exceeded the growth rates of developing countries, except for in 2013 when Rwanda’s growth decelerated to 4.7 percent. Among the 181 economies where 2014 gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate data is available, Rwanda’s growth rate of 7.0 percent is more than twice as high as the average of the 181 economies (3.2 percent), and is ranked 20th globally. Going forward, Rwanda’s growth rates are projected to exceed global growth rates in 2015-2017. This edition focuses on jobs in particular the employment dynamics of the past decade.