Reshaping Urbanization in Rwanda : Profiling Secondary Cities in Rwanda—Dynamics and Opportunities
Reshaping Urbanization in Rwanda: Economic and Spatial Trends and Proposals is an Advisory Services and Analytics (ASA), jointly provided by the Poverty and Equity Global Practice and the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice at the W...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/295261513850521418/Reshaping-urbanization-in-Rwanda-economic-and-spatial-trends-and-proposals-note-4-profiling-secondary-cities-in-Rwanda-dynamics-and-opportunities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29083 |
| Summary: | Reshaping Urbanization in Rwanda:
Economic and Spatial Trends and Proposals is an Advisory
Services and Analytics (ASA), jointly provided by the
Poverty and Equity Global Practice and the Social, Urban,
Rural and Resilience Global Practice at the World Bank. The
objective of this report is to inform the Government’s
policies and strategies on urbanization as a driver of
economic development, job creation, and poverty reduction,
through the following four stand‐alone but closely related
notes. Stimulating urban economic development, particularly
outside the capital city of Kigali, is critical to helping
Rwanda to achieve its strategic objective of a 35 percent
urban population share by 2020. This note looks at the
current growth rates and characteristics of secondary
cities1 and other fast‐growing towns outside of Kigali, and
assesses the opportunities and prospects for, as well as
constraints upon, future economic growth and development. It
also sets out key actions required from the Government of
Rwanda (GoR) tohelp stimulate growth in these cities and
towns. There are multiple population estimates for secondary
cities and fast‐growing towns due to the inconsistencies in
defining which areas are urban and in defining city
boundaries, and thus which sectors to include in estimates
of city populations. According to the 2002 and 2012
censuses, the six secondary cities grew at an average rate
of 3.3 percent over this period, slower than the national
rate of urban growth of 4.1 percent and the rate for Kigali
of 4.2 percent. In comparison, the three fast‐growing towns
are estimated to have grown at a rate of 5.3 percent, albeit
from a lower starting base, between 2002 and 2012. Of the
secondary cities, Musanze, Rubavu and Nyagatare are growing
most rapidly. The Musanze to Rubavu corridor benefits from
(i) the rich agricultural resources along this corridor, and
(ii) Rubavu’s proximity to the large market of Goma in DRC.
Nyagatare has absorbed significant investment in recent
years, and has also benefitted from the high levels of
migration to the East of the country witnessed by the most
recent inter‐censual period. This is reflected in the
findings of Note 2 which identifies internal migration
toward the Eastern Province. |
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