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The Development Path Less Traveled: The Experience of Rwanda

ByLaure Redifer, Emre Alper, Neil Meads, Tunc Gursoy, Monique Newiak, Alun H. Thomas, Samson Kwalingana

August 18, 2020

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Laure Redifer, Emre Alper, Neil Meads, Tunc Gursoy, Monique Newiak, Alun H. Thomas, and Samson Kwalingana. "The Development Path Less Traveled: The Experience of Rwanda", Departmental Papers 2020, 010 (2020), accessed 12/6/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513551371.087

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This paper explores some of the key factors behind Rwanda key successes, including unique institution-building that emphasized governance and ownership; aid-fueled and government-led strategic investment in people, infrastructure, and high-yield economic activity; re-establishment and expansion of a domestic tax base; policies to reduce aid dependency by attracting private investment and bolstering exports; and a purposeful strategy to harness the economic power of gender inclusion.

Subject: Expenditure, Gender, Gender inequality, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Public investment spending, Women

Keywords: Africa, development framework, development partner, direct tax, District government, donor government, DP, DPPP, East Asia, economic planning, exchange rate, foreign direct investment, Gender inequality, Global, government intervention, growth story, income tax, insurance coverage, labor force, life expectancy, maternity leave, private sector, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Public investment spending, real GDP, Rwandan authorities, Rwandan franc, Sub-Saharan Africa, trade balance, Women

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