This assessment provides a detailed analysis grounded in the changing paradigm on development in Rwanda, speaking to how relationships can be corroborated empirically and how the evidence should influence the policymaking process at the national, meso, and micro levels. Specifically, it addresses the following questions:
- How serious are the environmental and human development concerns in Rwanda?
- Are the concerns of rapid economic growth compromising sustainable development and the reduction of poverty in the long run?
- Have past policy performances depended at least partly on unsustainable use of the environment to promote economic growth? If so how?
- Can a change of approach and outlook serve better the desire for economic growth with sustainable development?
- Can the physical and human development in Rwanda be better used for poverty reduction? How?