Research Papers

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 (...)

International remittances to developing countries have been increasing in the recent decades and they constitute a critical lifeline for millions of recipient households. However, there is a growing mixed empirical claims about their impact on socio-welfare in recipient economies. In the case of SSA countries, there is a sparse empirical studies providing an in-depth understanding how these inflows reduce poverty and improve development outcomes. This paper contributes to the existing (...)