The World Bank has clarified and endorsed the country's poverty reduction rate after news reports claimed the statistics about Rwanda's poverty reduction had been tampered with.
The statement which was published on the World Bank's website on Friday says the World Bank staff weighed in publicly, clearly, and with commensurate technical rigour on the Rwanda poverty measurement debate in a working paper (Revisiting the Poverty Trend in Rwanda: 2010/11 to 2013/14) published in September 2018.
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