Rwanda poverty debate: summarising the debate and estimating consistent historical trends

Maurice Okito

Review of African Political Economy, 2020, vol. 46, issue 162, 665-672

Abstract: This briefing aims to: (1) summarise the poverty debate and (2) explain differences between the estimates produced by different authors. The key points are that: (1) there has been a sharp increase in poverty since 2011 according to all consistent trend estimates; (2) the finding is robust to all reasonable assumptions about inflation and price data; and (3) the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda’s findings do not tally with their own stated assumptions about inflation.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2019.1678463

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