Views from Below on the Pro-poor Growth Challenge: Agrarian Policies in the Context of Rural Rwanda

An Ansoms

Chapter 7 in Natural Resources and Local Livelihoods in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, 2011, pp 123-145 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract At the dawn of the new millennium, the international community placed the fight against poverty as the top priority on the development agenda. The emergence of this new development paradigm did not erase the international community’s belief in the necessity of economic growth as a trigger for development; as Bhalla states, ‘Growth is the core of economics. Inequality may be its heart, but growth is its soul…. Every country, irrespective of ideological persuasion, has worshiped at the altar of growth…. Without growth, concerns about poverty and inequality will only become greater concerns’ (2002: 13). But the general understanding of growth as the essential element shifted, such that it is now seen as a necessary but insufficient condition for achieving poverty reduction. This shift was evident in the replacement of Structural Adjustment Programmes by Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). Rwanda implemented its first PRSP policy from 2002 to 2005 (see GoR, 2002), and a second Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS) will be implemented over the 2008–2012 period (see GoR, 2007).

Keywords: Great Lake Region; Local Livelihood; Legal Pluralism; Poor Category; Poverty Reduction Strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230304994_7

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