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| Morris, Michael L.; Drake, Liz; Ezemenari, Kene; Diao, Xinshen. |
| In 2000, as part of its strategy for growth and poverty reduction, the Government of Rwanda set a goal to increase per capita income from US$230 to US$900 and halve the incidence of poverty by 2020. Two years after those targets were established Rwanda's first Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) projected that GDP growth in the range of 6 to 7 percent would be needed over the long term for those targets to be realized. The principal sources of growth in the short to medium term were to be the agriculture and manufacturing sectors, with agricultural projected to start at 5.2 percent and accelerate over the period due to productivity improvements. Manufacturing growth was projected to rise sharply to 11.5 percent, based on the expansion of manufacturing... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy; International Development. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9908 |
