{"id":38898,"date":"2019-02-22T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-exports-grew-by-12-4-in-2018\/"},"modified":"2019-02-22T16:30:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T16:30:57","slug":"rwanda-exports-grew-by-12-4-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-exports-grew-by-12-4-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda exports grew by 12.4% in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was announced on Thursday as the bank presented the national economic outlook which showed that as export volumes increased, the value of-of imports also increased by 12.4%.<\/p>\n<p>BNR Governor John Rwangombwa explained that the disequilibrium came about when the value of imports increased by 9.5% while exports increased only by 5.5%.<\/p>\n<p>BNR explained that the increase in imports was a result of infrastructural projects which include the electricity plant being built in Gisagara, the Bugesera Airport, different Road construction projects, and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently, the increase of Rwanda\u2019s exports is credited to the introduction of Made-in-Rwanda,\u201d Rwangombwa concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has announced that last year Rwanda exported goods worth $995.7 million up from $943.5 million in 2017.<\/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":[133],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-main-featured-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\/38898","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=38898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38898"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38898"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}