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Workers in Kigali’s Central Business District load cargo on upcountry bound trucks Supply deficiencies coupled with high costs of borrowing to produce increases the prices of already scarce consumer goods even further which also diminishes consumer purchasing power. File Photo.

Increasing interest rate not the best antidote to inflation

Wednesday, November 23, 2022
The New Times

Qatar can’t win and neither can anyone else

Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Clients at a BPR Bank Rwanda branch at Nyabugogo in Kigali. The National Bank of Rwanda on Tuesday, November 15, increased its lending rate from 6 per cent to 6.5 per cent as part of efforts to help tame inflation. Photo: File.
Economy

Economists weigh in on new BNR lending rate increase

Thursday, November 17, 2022
Workers on duty at Pink Mango, the garment factory in Kigali. Rwanda’s exports rose by 39.9 percent in the third quarter of 2022.File
Economy

Five key highlights in Central Bank’s economic performance report

Wednesday, November 16, 2022
President Paul Kagame with other world leaders at the ongoing G20 Summit in Indonesia on Tuesday, November 15. Photo by Village Urugwiro
Africa

Kagame makes Africa's case at G20 Summit

Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Vendors at Nyarugenge Market. Food and non-alcoholic beverages increased by 39.7 per cent in October 2022 compared to the same month of 2021 according to Rwanda’s Consumer Price Index (CPI). Craish Bahizi
Business

Urban food prices rise by 40 per cent

Thursday, November 10, 2022
The New Times

Africa’s Perennial Problem of Feeding its Population

Tuesday, November 01, 2022
Food stalls at Kimisagara market in Kigali. Rwanda has seen a significant improvement in its food security status, with statistics from a 2018 report showing that 81.3 per cent of its population was food secure. Photo: Craish Bahizi.
Rwanda

World Food Day: How Rwanda keeps focus on food security

Thursday, October 27, 2022
A farmer sorts her beans plantation.Rwanda is offering free fertilisers to its farmer as it responds to high food prices, and drought that is threatening to cause crop production failure
Agriculture

Rwanda offers free fertilisers, irrigation as drought bites

Thursday, October 27, 2022
Farmers weeding their potato plantation in Muko Sector Musanze District. Potato farmers will from now start paying only RwfRwf603 a kilogramme for the NPK 17-17-17, a commonly used fertiliser in potato production.Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture

Govt increases fertiliser subsidies

Tuesday, October 25, 2022
The New Times

Smart agriculture for sustainable food systems in Africa

Tuesday, October 25, 2022
The 2022 Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting hosted in Washington DC on Wednesday, October 12. Courtesy
Economy

C’ Wealth finance ministers appeal for measures to tame rising inflation

Thursday, October 13, 2022