Research Papers

BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION
Due to the limited shelf life of fresh produce in the horticulture sector, supply and demand chains are less adaptable to current disruptions caused by required preventive measures against COVID-19 pandemic. These disruptions have had negative effects in the livelihoods of many smallholder farmers in Rwanda and around the world.
Oxfam in Rwanda commissioned a rapid assessment on Impacts assessment of COVID-19 in the Horticulture value chains and business (...)

This study investigates the determinants of recent migration in Rwanda. The study used internal and international migration data to find out the factors associated with recent migration in Rwanda. By using Rwanda labour force survey (RLFS, 2018), we considered the participants who migrated from one district to another and those who migrated internationally with 16 years old and above. First, we employed a binary outcome probit model to find out the factors associated with migration (...)

Short-term loan financing is one of ways used to fasten financial performance and growth of firms mainly those operating in manufacturing domain. It is an important source of finance to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) all over the World where it has financed almost half of the businesses done by SMEs in United States of America (USA), many businesses are financed by short-term loan European countries, Africa and Asia. Despite its importance all over the world, short-term loan financing (...)

East African Community (EAC) is an organization of east African countries composed by 6 countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan. Single customs territory (SCT) was adopted as the stage towards full attainment of the customs union achievable by the removal of restrictive regulations of internal border controls on goods moving between the member states with an ultimate realization of free circulation of goods. This study intended to analyze the effect of (...)

This paper examines the effect of a variate of drivers of economic growth in East African Community (EAC) countries from 1991 to 2018. Different researches have been criticizing the reallocation of economic activities in different sectors of the economy in the southern hemisphere, especially in sub-African countries. This paper is devoted to the recent evolution of the sectoral output level and employment in East African Community countries, assessment of causes and covariates that are (...)

The Rwandan government has come up with different strategies in order to transform its economy since the year 2000, these includes Vision 2020 in the year 2000 which was broken down into strategies (EDPRS1 and 2) and currently the National Strategy for Transformation (NST1). One of the key objectives of the NST 1is the improvement of the business sector in order to be able to contribute fully to the structural transformation of the economy. Despite implementing different strategies to (...)

This study examines the effect of foreign aid inflows on the real exchange rate in Rwanda. It uses annual time series data for the period of 1980 to 2013. The main hypotheses of the study is that large foreign aid inflows in Rwanda lead to the appreciation of the real exchange rate and thus, impact negatively on exports competitiveness, a phenomenon known as the Dutch disease effect.
To test the research hypothesizes ; the Johansen cointegration techniques and the vector error correction (...)

Rwanda has made impressive increase in population growth control during the last decade. The Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) rose threefold from 17% in 2005 to 52% in 2010 and 53% in 2014. Contraceptive uptake was recorded more among poor populations than among rich and among rural than among urban residents. As result, the poor-rich gap in family planning evolved in convergence. This paper investigates the pathways through which the narrowing contraceptive gap is occurring. More (...)