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Rwanda: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Joint Staff Advisory Note

December 17, 2013

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Rwanda: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Joint Staff Advisory Note, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

This Joint Staff Advisory Note focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Rwanda. Rwanda’s second Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS 2) covers FY2013/14–2017/18. It builds on the lessons learned in the implementation of the EDPRS 1. Among the positive lessons, the authorities point to the importance of ownership of the strategy including aid-financed programs, home-grown initiatives, community-based solutions, and an adequate institutional and legal framework. The overall objectives of the EDPRS 2 are to accelerate growth and further reduce poverty, including extreme poverty.

Subject: National accounts, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction and development, Poverty reduction strategy, Private investment

Keywords: Ambitious growth, CR, Customized EDPRS 2 website, EDPRS 2, Global, Government, Government policy, Government reform, ISCR, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction and development, Poverty reduction strategy, Preceding EDPRS, Private investment, Private sector, Sub-District government

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    10

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2013/361

  • Stock No:

    1RWAEA2013004

  • ISBN:

    9781475594249

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685