{"id":14742,"date":"2014-05-31T09:43:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T09:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-economy-to-expands-by-6-in-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-06-05T04:57:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T04:57:18","slug":"rwanda-economy-to-expands-by-6-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-economy-to-expands-by-6-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Economy to Expand by 6% in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda&#8217;s economy is expected to grow by 6% in 2014 from 4.6% in 2013, while inflation will remain contained, the International Monetary Fund said.}}<\/p>\n<p>The Country&#8217;s growth slipped from 7.3 percent in 2012 after donors cut aid over Rwanda&#8217;s alleged involvement in a conflict in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Downside risks to the outlook centre around delays in government financed projects and a weak second season for agriculture,&#8221; the IMF said in a statement issued late on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington-based fund said inflationary pressures had been subdued and urged the government to steer policy carefully to avoid fiscal imbalances in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The need to support growth and preserve the level of foreign reserves requires a cautious fiscal stance through maintaining priority spending,&#8221; the IMF said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-5919 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pkk-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{ {{President Paul Kagame listens to Minister of Agriculture during a tour at Rwanda Seed and Silo Plants at the Special Economic Zone- Kigali.}} }<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda&#8217;s economy is expected to grow by 6% in 2014 from 4.6% in 2013, while inflation will remain contained, the International Monetary Fund said.}} The Country&#8217;s growth slipped from 7.3 percent in 2012 after donors cut aid over Rwanda&#8217;s alleged involvement in a conflict in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo. &#8220;Downside risks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000052477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75],"byline":[2298],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-14742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-homenews","byline-kwezi-patrick"],"bylines":[{"id":2298,"name":"Kwezi Patrick","slug":"kwezi-patrick","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2298,"name":"Kwezi Patrick","slug":"kwezi-patrick","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000052477,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14742.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14742.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14742.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14742.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14742.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14742.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000052477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14742"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=14742"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=14742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}