Rwanda
IGC Rwanda provides demand-led, frontier research to support sustainable and inclusive growth in Rwanda. Our current research focus is on domestic market integration into regional and global value chains, fostering of public sector effectiveness, and the response of the Rwandan economy to climate change.
Featured Content
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The macroeconomic case for climate adaptation in Rwanda
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Do Rwanda’s cities increase worker productivity and welfare?
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Rwanda’s response to COVID-19 and future challenges
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Consolidating peace and legitimacy in Rwanda
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Selection and incentive effects of teacher performance contracts in Rwanda
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Creating opportunity from crisis: Raising worker productivity during the pandemic
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Regional value chains in East Africa
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Best practice for implementing affordable housing in Kigali
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Delivering affordable housing and supporting infrastructure in Kigali, Rwanda
About
Rwanda continues to build a resilient economy and grow at strong rates, but momentum around productivity, export growth, and poverty reduction has slowed. Since 2010, through close working relationships with the government, IGC Rwanda’s researchers have produced effective, evidence-based, and demand-led advice to policymakers, from ‘rapid response’ analyses of urgent policy questions, to multi-year nationwide surveys and experimental studies. Projects include providing recommendations around regional import tariffs, improving VAT compliance, and raising the value of coffee exports. Going forward, IGC Rwanda will work in areas including improving education service delivery, sustaining high export growth, promoting job creation, and expanding electricity access across the country.
IGC Rwanda operates under Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) with several key governmental stakeholders including the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN), which requests that we produce demand-driven research outputs that strengthen the evidence base for policymaking relevant to Rwanda’s long-run growth. The IGC in Rwanda has fostered close working relationships with MINECOFIN, the Office of the Presidency’s Strategy and Policy Unit, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the National Bank of Rwanda, the Ministry of Infrastructure, Rwanda Revenue Authority, and the Development Bank of Rwanda, amongst many other government partners.
Going forward, IGC Rwanda will work in areas including climate change adaptation, mitigation, and financing; sustaining high export growth and the strengthening of domestic supply chains; promoting job creation; and expanding electricity access across the country.
Staff
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![Hoziane Amen](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2023-08/Hoziane%20Amen.jpg?itok=CC-CJXFj)
Hoziane Amen
Country Economist, Rwanda, International Growth Centre![](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2015/07/Lauren-Falcao.jpg?itok=89So_5GR)
Lauren Falcao Bergquist
Assistant Professor of Economics and Global Affairs, Yale University![](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2022/06/IGC_20220923__155-e1664956859748.jpg?itok=0FStZMn3)
Mphatso Kumwenda
Country Economist, Rwanda, International Growth Centre![](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2014/08/Richard-Newfarmer.jpg?itok=1DQRwLy9)
Richard Newfarmer
Country Director, Rwanda and Uganda, International Growth Centre![Yves Rwego profile picture](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2023-07/IMG-7113.jpg?itok=Ew1EuQPD)
Yves Rwego
Junior Programme officer, Rwanda, International Growth CentreFeatured Researchers
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Andrew Zeitlin
Assistant Professor, Georgetown University![](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2014/08/Garth-Frazer.jpg?itok=XQOSMvgW)
Garth Frazer
Associate Professor of Business Economics, University of Toronto![](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2014/08/Mihaly-Kopanyi.jpg?itok=ZEfz2fge)
Mihaly Kopanyi
Municipal Finance Consultant, World Bank![](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2014/08/nadda-eissa.jpg?itok=tz-8G0BT)
Nada Eissa
Associate Professor, Georgetown University![](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2018/12/jie-bai-e1545147716439.jpg?itok=rVrkvyA3)