RWANDA: VISION TOWARDS 2020

having vastly reduced the poverty rate from what it was before, more than 60% of the population still live in poverty as defined by the World Bank at less than $ 1.25 a day, but despite this, Rwanda deserves to be praised and admired for its economic growth since the 1994 Genocide.

With a vast post-liberation development programme in terms of road, school, hospitals and energy generation projects, Rwanda’s robust development agenda and its own limited budget, borrowing could not be excluded as a means of achieving the goal of being self-sufficient and ensuring a further continued positive growth rate of 6- 8% average. In addition, the government of Rwanda has been able to exercise restraint when it comes to investing and has done so with productive sectors of its economy, resulting in