{"id":39880,"date":"2019-08-21T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-progress-is-real-and-open-to-scrutiny\/"},"modified":"2019-08-24T12:19:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T12:19:24","slug":"rwanda-s-progress-is-real-and-open-to-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-progress-is-real-and-open-to-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\u2019s progress is real and open to scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is consistent with what we know, as well as the findings of all international organizations.<\/p>\n

The same IMF report states that \u201cthe quality of the national accounts data in Rwanda is one of the highest in Sub-Saharan Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the only reason this debate can take place, whether in good faith or bad, is because of Rwanda\u2019s robust and publicly accessible data systems. I was therefore profoundly surprised by your Big Read article \u201cEven poverty data must toe Kagame\u2019s line\u201d (August 14). <\/p>\n

The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda responded fully to the Financial Times\u2019s questions, but the author ignored those responses, as well as data from global institutions, including the World Bank, IMF, S&P, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum. <\/p>\n

More seriously, the alacrity with which your reporters dragged the president\u2019s name into a debate ostensibly about statistical methodology is astonishing, to say the least.
\nYour readers have not been exposed to an honest debate on poverty data, but rather to a series of anonymous and baseless claims. <\/p>\n

Beyond statistics, Rwanda\u2019s progress is plain for anyone to see. Rwanda is open to scrutiny and conversation with all who are interested in our journey of socio-economic transformation. <\/p>\n

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{{Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana
\nMinister of Finance and Economic Planning, Rwanda}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The IMF Article IV Consultation dated July 3, 2019, concludes that \u201cRwanda has made considerable progress in sustaining high and inclusive growth and reducing poverty\u2019.<\/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":[75],"byline":[2947],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-dr-uzziel-ndagijimana"],"bylines":[{"id":2947,"name":"Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana,","slug":"dr-uzziel-ndagijimana","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2947,"name":"Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana,","slug":"dr-uzziel-ndagijimana","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39880","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=39880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39880"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39880"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}