{"id":34237,"date":"2017-04-28T15:18:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwf-2-094-9-billion-for-2017-2018-budget\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T11:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T11:01:31","slug":"rwf-2-094-9-billion-for-2017-2018-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwf-2-094-9-billion-for-2017-2018-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwf 2,094.9 billion for 2017\/2018 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Ambassador Claver Gatete has presented a draft budget for 2017\/2018 showing a significant rise  from Rwf 1954.2 billion in 2016\/2017  to  Rwf 2094.9 billion. }  <\/p>\n<p>Internally generated revenues and loans account for 83% of the total budget; 17% will come from foreign aid.<\/p>\n<p>As he presented the draft budget to both chambers of the parliament, Minister Gatete explained that recurrent budget take Rwf 1122.9 billion while development budget activities will take Rwf 774 billion. <\/p>\n<p>A total of Rwf 159.1 billion will be allocated to public investment like construction of Bugesera international Airport and expanding RwandaAir activities among others. <\/p>\n<p>It is expected that the nation\u2019s economy will grow  by 6.2% in 2017 and 6.8% in 2018.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19678 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/c-e22blxgaahqg6-2-71962.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Ambassador Claver Gatete presenting the draft budget for 2017\/2018.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Ambassador Claver Gatete has presented a draft budget for 2017\/2018 showing a significant rise from Rwf 1954.2 billion in 2016\/2017 to Rwf 2094.9 billion. } Internally generated revenues and loans account for 83% of the total budget; 17% will come from foreign aid. As he presented the draft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34237","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34237"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34237"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}