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20-year economic plan sets ambitious targets

    NAIROBI

    The ruling Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF) has released a 20-year development plan aimed at increasing per capita income from US $250 to US $5,000 by the year 2020, RNA reported on Friday. It is also aimed to reduce the number of people below the poverty line from 50 percent to below 20 percent, push for the elimination of famine, increase agricultural productivity and diversification, and increase specialisation on high-value crop and animal production. The plan, the first half of which was to be achieved by 2008, maintained that Rwanda’s “external dependency” would be dramatically reversed, bringing down the rate of formal unemployment from 80 to 10 per cent, RNA added.

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