Poursuivre la croissance, oubliant les pauvres? Une analyse critique des politiques rurales du Rwanda
(2008) L’Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire 2007-2008 — ISBN: [978-229605320-5], p. 29-54, published
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- This paper studies the case of Rwandan in order to address some of the challenges and pitfalls in defining pro-poor strategies. The paper first looks at the danger of a purely growth-led development focus (as in Rwanda’s first PRSP), and evaluates the extent to which the agricultural sector has been a pro-poor growth engine. It then studies Rwanda’s current rural policies, which aim to modernise and ‘professionalise’ the rural sector. There is a high risk that these rural policy measures will be at the expense of the large mass of small-scale peasants. This paper stresses that the real challenge to transform the rural sector into a true pro-poor growth engine will be to value and incorporate the capacity and potential of small-scale ‘non-professional’ peasants into the core strategies for rural development. The lessons drawn from the Rwandan case should inspire policy makers and international donors worldwide to shift their focus away from a purely output-led logic towards distribution-oriented rural development policies. In other words, the challenge is to reconcile efficiency in creating economic growth with equity, and perhaps, to put equity first.
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Ansoms, A. (2008). Poursuivre la croissance, oubliant les pauvres? Une analyse critique des politiques rurales du Rwanda. In F. Reyntjens et al. (ed.), L’Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire 2007-2008 (p. p. 29-54). L’Harmattan. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/62050