{"id":36188,"date":"2017-11-03T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/premier-ngirente-meets-imf-director-for-africa\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T12:06:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:06:47","slug":"premier-ngirente-meets-imf-director-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/premier-ngirente-meets-imf-director-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Ngirente meets IMF Director for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The discussions between the two leaders focused on how to advance and strengthen gender equality. <\/p>\n<p>Premier Ngirente commended the good existing relations, partnership and cooperation between Rwanda and IMF. <\/p>\n<p>Selassie expressed his gratitude to the Government of Rwanda for having accepted to host the Gender Equality Peer Learning Conference (November 2nd &#8211; 4th 2017) and described it as a good opportunity to learn what Rwanda has achieved in advancing gender equality. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came here to meet the Prime Minister in order to get perspective on how he sees IMF policies and challenges on Rwanda\u201d, IMF\u2019s Abebe said. <\/p>\n<p>In terms of partnership, the Government of Rwanda is currently implementing its second three-year Policy Support Instrument, focusing on private sector development; export promotion; domestic resource mobilization and financial sector development.  <\/p>\n<p>Abebe Selassie was appointed Director of the African Department (AFR) at the International Monetary Fund on 19th September 2016.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22444 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mp2.jpg\" alt=\"Premier Ngirente (L) receives The Director of the African Department (AFR) at the International Monetary Fund, Abebe Selassie \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22445 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pm-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22446 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pm1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Selassie and delegates meet Prime Minister Ngirente and other government officials.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22447 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pm3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22448 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pm4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22449 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pm5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22450 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pm6.jpg\" alt=\"Premier Ngirente (L) and Selassie pose for a photo\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22451 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/selassie_speaks_to_the_media.jpg\" alt=\"Selassie speaks to the media \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of the African Department (AFR) at the International Monetary Fund, Abebe Selassie paid a courtesy visit to the Prime Minister, Dr. Edouard Ngirente.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/36188","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=36188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36188"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36188"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}