{Rwanda received $70 million in aid from the World Bank to help reduce poverty by improving the African state’s social protection benefits meant for the poorest households.}<\/p>\n
Rwanda, one of sub-Saharan Africa’s fastest growing economies over the past decade, has put poverty alleviation at the heart of its policy since the end of the genocide. <\/p>\n
The number of Rwandans living in extreme poverty fell to 24 percent in 2011 from 40 percent a decade earlier, government data showed.<\/p>\n
However, many Rwandans remain mired in poverty despite strong economic growth expected to hit 6.5 percent in 2015 compared with about 6 percent last year.<\/p>\n
Rwanda’s Finance Minister Claver Gatete said on Monday a portion of the aid from the World Bank will provide monthly allowances to some of the poorest families in Rwanda, women, genocide survivors, as well as fund new businesses.<\/p>\n
“Our target is to make sure that by 2017 that the poverty level is below 20 percent and below 10 percent in 2020,” Gatete said at a ceremony to sign the agreement in the capital Kigali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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