Observations on the Rwandan Government Economic Recovery Plan

In this report, Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza provides her observations on the economic recovery plan devised by the Rwandan Ministry of Finance and Economic and Planning to revive the country’s economy following the COVID-19 crisis.

She begins by commenting on the priorities of the government recovery plan and measures put in place to revive selected sectors of the Rwandan economy. Thereafter, she presents her observations on key measures included in the government social protection response plan. At the end, she discusses topics not covered in the government economic recovery plan that are considered to be “the elephant in the room”