{"id":47415,"date":"2014-02-12T10:11:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T15:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=47415"},"modified":"2014-02-12T14:34:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T19:34:48","slug":"rwanda-to-maintain-accommodative-policy-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2014\/02\/12\/rwanda-to-maintain-accommodative-policy-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda to maintain accommodative policy &#8211; governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1iP0FNb\"><u>CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Rwanda&#8217;s central bank &#8220;will maintain its accommodative monetary policy stance to stimulate credit to the private sector as long as inflationary pressures will remain limited,&#8221; the bank&#8217;s governor said.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Presenting the National Bank of Rwanda&#8217;s (BNR) policy and financial stability statement, John Rwangombwa also said the country&#8217;s economy slowed in 2013 compared to recent years due to the impact of cuts and delays in budgets in 2012.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Annual growth in Rwanda&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product fell to 3.9 percent in the third quarter of 2013 from 5.7 percent in the second quarter and the country&#8217;s finance and economic planning ministry has therefore revised down its 2013 growth forecast to less than 6.0 percent, Rwangombwa said.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Rwanda&#8217;s inflation rate eased to 2.43 percent in January, down from 3.65 percent in December, and he said deposit interest rates and lending rates had declined in line with the bank&#8217;s monetary stance. The lending rate declined to 16.9 percent in December from 17.8 percent in September.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; At the last meeting of its monetary policy committee in December 2013, the BNR held its repo rate steady at 7.0 percent following a 50 basis point rate cut in June.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1iP0FNb\">http:\/\/ift.tt\/1iP0FNb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp;Rwanda&#8217;s central bank &#8220;will maintain its accommodative monetary policy stance to stimulate credit to the private sector as long as inflationary pressures will remain limited,&#8221; the bank&#8217;s governor said.&nbsp; &nbsp; Presenting the National Bank of Rwanda&#8217;s (BNR) policy and financial stability statement, John Rwangombwa also said the country&#8217;s economy slowed in 2013 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2014\/02\/12\/rwanda-to-maintain-accommodative-policy-governor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rwanda to maintain accommodative policy &#8211; governor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}