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Project
Urbanisation in Rwanda: Future driver of growth
Urbanisation affects where individuals live, what firms produce, and the composition of the local economy. Researchers wrote a policy note on key challenges to urbanisation in Rwanda They recommended that the Rwandan government should look at urbanisation beyond the strict definition of investment in structures, and should also focus more broadly at rural-urban...
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Support to the Rwanda Mining Board in revising the Mining Policy and Strategy
Rwanda, like most mineral-exporting countries in sub-Saharan Africa, exports minerals in semi-processed concentrate form. Although contributing 11 percent of foreign exchange, mining activities have existed as an enclave, disconnected from the wider economy. There is a widespread perception among senior Rwandan government officials that the mining sector performs below its...
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Publication - Project Report
The potential for beneficiation of industrial minerals in Rwanda
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Project
Housing demand in Kigali
The Government of Rwanda would like to understand the quantity of housing need in Kigali, and to update it from an earlier 2012 study conducted by the European Union, as well as to understand how to expand affordable housing. This project estimates: i) the quantity of housing needed in Kigali, Rwanda; and ii) the purchasing power of tenant and mortgage-holding...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Strengthening consumers’ participation in VAT compliance strategies in Rwanda
The Value Added Tax (VAT) is one of the main tax instruments in Rwanda and, in the last few years, the Rwandan government and the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) have developed a series of tax enforcement initiatives intended to reduce VAT evasion. Most notably, Rwanda introduced Electronic Billing Machines (EBMs), which VAT-registered firms are legally required to use...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Improving teacher management and professional development: A survey of the policy landscape in Rwanda
An important policy question in Rwanda is how can schools attract, motivate, develop, and retain skilled teachers who will deliver positive learning outcomes. The centralisation of the hiring and teacher allocation process, proposed to take place in the 2018/19 school years, provides an opportunity to address the challenges associated with this policy question. ...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Harnessing the potential of ICT for education in Rwanda
The Government of Rwanda’s Education Sector Strategic Plan describes the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in general as “fundamental” to achieving the socio-economic development outlined in Vision 2050, and its use in education as “critical”. Technology in education has significant potential to increase equality of access to and use of...
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Blog post
Challenges and choices in the Rwandan education system: R3 roundtable discussion
Education is a vital part of any economic growth strategy. However, implementation in Rwanda must overcome a number of challenges including dropout rates, nutrition, teaching hours, teacher recruitment and management, and the need to develop a reading culture. In this blog post, Jonathan Bower describes presentations by researchers from Laterite and from Georgetown...
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Project
Prices, firm-to-firm trade, and import substitution in Rwanda
In developing countries, where domestic firms often lack the capabilities to produce intermediate goods efficiently, firms rely heavily on imported intermediate inputs for production. Reflecting this observation, there is now ample evidence that import prices of these intermediate goods have important consequences for production and profit margins of the domestic importers...
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Publication - Policy Brief
The potential of backward linkages in Rwanda: A data-driven approach to supplier development programmes