Bolstering Poverty Reduction in Rwanda : A Poverty Assessment

Rwanda is renowned among African countries for the rapid advances achieved in its population’s standard of living. Public service delivery has grown dramatically, and educational attainment, vaccination rates, educational attainment, and demographi...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	POVERTY REDUCTION HUMAN CAPITAL OFF-FARM EMPLOYMENT MIGRATION AGRICULTURE SOCIAL ASSISTANCE LABOR MARKET STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION URBANIZATION MARKET DISTORTIONS FOOD MARKET
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/749051603952259889/Bolstering-Poverty-Reduction-in-Rwanda-A-Poverty-Assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34753

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spelling	okr-10986-347532021-05-25T09:48:30Z Bolstering Poverty Reduction in Rwanda : A Poverty Assessment World Bank POVERTY REDUCTION HUMAN CAPITAL OFF-FARM EMPLOYMENT MIGRATION AGRICULTURE SOCIAL ASSISTANCE LABOR MARKET STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION URBANIZATION MARKET DISTORTIONS FOOD MARKET Rwanda is renowned among African countries for the rapid advances achieved in its population’s standard of living. Public service delivery has grown dramatically, and educational attainment, vaccination rates, educational attainment, and demographic factors have all improved. Access to financial services, health insurance, and infrastructure have expanded. Between 2000 and 2010, the percentage of people living in poverty fell from 59 to approximately 46 percent and then to 38 percent by 2016 (NISR: national poverty line). Yet progress has not always been even, and challenges endure. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Rwanda will face fiscal strains and economic setbacks, in addition to public health difficulties. It will be paramount to identify and implement cost-effective policies that foster broad-based growth and sustained poverty reduction, while building resilience to a range of shocks. This poverty assessment provides empirical evidence regarding the constraints to accelerated poverty reduction over the period October-September 2010-11-2016-17 to help guide the country’s policies going forward. 2020-11-09T20:18:17Z 2020-11-09T20:18:17Z 2020-10 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/749051603952259889/Bolstering-Poverty-Reduction-in-Rwanda-A-Poverty-Assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34753 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Poverty Assessment Africa Rwanda
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description	Rwanda is renowned among African countries for the rapid advances achieved in its population’s standard of living. Public service delivery has grown dramatically, and educational attainment, vaccination rates, educational attainment, and demographic factors have all improved. Access to financial services, health insurance, and infrastructure have expanded. Between 2000 and 2010, the percentage of people living in poverty fell from 59 to approximately 46 percent and then to 38 percent by 2016 (NISR: national poverty line). Yet progress has not always been even, and challenges endure. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Rwanda will face fiscal strains and economic setbacks, in addition to public health difficulties. It will be paramount to identify and implement cost-effective policies that foster broad-based growth and sustained poverty reduction, while building resilience to a range of shocks. This poverty assessment provides empirical evidence regarding the constraints to accelerated poverty reduction over the period October-September 2010-11-2016-17 to help guide the country’s policies going forward.
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title	Bolstering Poverty Reduction in Rwanda : A Poverty Assessment
title_short	Bolstering Poverty Reduction in Rwanda : A Poverty Assessment
title_full	Bolstering Poverty Reduction in Rwanda : A Poverty Assessment
title_fullStr	Bolstering Poverty Reduction in Rwanda : A Poverty Assessment
title_full_unstemmed	Bolstering Poverty Reduction in Rwanda : A Poverty Assessment
title_sort	bolstering poverty reduction in rwanda : a poverty assessment
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/749051603952259889/Bolstering-Poverty-Reduction-in-Rwanda-A-Poverty-Assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34753
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