{"id":37064,"date":"2018-03-06T12:55:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T12:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-economy-to-grow-by-6-5-in-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-03-09T08:27:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T08:27:19","slug":"rwanda-s-economy-to-grow-by-6-5-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-economy-to-grow-by-6-5-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda&#8217;s Economy to grow by 6.5% in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was announced by the Central Bank Governor, John Rwangombwa while presenting a monetary policy and financial stability statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year we expect to perform much better than last year, we project a growth of 6.5 percent. We are seeing better climate conditions this year that will impact positively on our economic performance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>At least 70 percent of Rwandans are farmers, the national statistics body says, growing crops like maize and vegetables for local use and tea and coffee for export.<\/p>\n<p>The central bank said inflation is expected to be around 5.0 percent in 2018, slightly up from 4.9 percent last year.<\/p>\n<p>Rwangombwa said that the east African nation was still collating figures, but would most likely hit or surpass predicted 5.2 percent growth for 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good climate conditions are expected to help Rwanda\u2019s economy grow by 6.5 percent this year, up from a projected 5.2 percent last year.<\/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-37064","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\/37064","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=37064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37064"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37064"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}