BREAKING: Rwanda President Paul Kagame Sends 18 Chinese Back To China In His Bid To Maintain Sanity On African Soil
On the domestic front, the central bank has kept inflation in check, averaging four per cent annually, while market forces have determined the exchange rate for the past seven years — creating a predictable economic environment.
While guaranteed debt has kept growing, reaching $1.9 billion in 2016, the debt burden remains at low-risk levels, with all indicators below the indicative thresholds established by the World Bank and IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis tool.
“The Debt Sustainability Analysis carried out in December last year shows Rwanda’s debt service to export stood at 19.4 per cent, against debt service to export threshold of 25 per cent while the external debt to GDP ratio stood at 29.8 percent by end of 2016,” according to data from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.
The growth in exports — attributed to a shift from a heavy reliance on traditional exports to non-traditional exports — has improved the account deficit and is expected to reduce to 20.1 per cent in 2017.
Credit to the private sector has been growing. The ratio of bank credit to private sector, according to available data reached 21.33 in 2015, from 12.19 per cent in 2010.
Industry players believe the appetite for credit to fund businesses is set to increase as the government’s domestic borrowing reduces, lending costs diminish and non-performing loans improve.
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