4.7.3. Population policy as
environmental policy
Many policymakers in Rwanda feel that the only effective way
to control environmental destruction is to control the number of people by
population control policies. This is explained by the total environmental
impact:
Total environmental impact = environmental impact per person *
number of people.
Therefore it is clear that total environmental impact can be
increased as a result of increases in their or both these factors.
4.7.4. Health and
Development
Some health costs are captured in SUT as expenditure and are
also induced in GDP but they are some others which are not captured by SUT but
by health satellite accounts.
The health system is also taken into account for development;
the following state some analysis on health and development:
«Keeping mothers alive and healthy is good for women,
their families, and society. Prioritizing women's health is helping Rwanda to
meet many of the millennium development goals: first improvement of maternal
and child health then reduced poverty, universal education and gender equality.
In Rwanda rural people tend to have large families, suffer disproportionately
from illness, and use fewer health services due to its low income and some time
ignorance. Reproductive health care in Rwanda is enhancing rural people's
overall health care and helping families to escape the poverty impact of having
many children».
Due to deferent policies for development in Rwanda, financial
resources and benefit are being divided among fewer family members; more is
left for education, health care and saving, decreasing vulnerability and
insecurity.
This important link between reproductive health and
development outcomes has been articulated in Rwanda since many years.
4.7.5. Tourism
The movement of population across national borders is another
mark of integration and development. In Rwanda some of expenditures on tourism
sector are captured by SUT through investment or gross fixed capital formation
induced by private sector or government. And some others are captured in
Tourism satellite accounts.
Receipts from tourisms were 6.5% of export in 20009. The
receipts from tourists has increased the capacity of Rwanda's economy and
improved also the Rwanda's rest of the world account. More further, due to
development of tourism Rwanda's gross saving had increased from 25 billion Frw
in 1999 to reach 404 billion FRw in 2009 (Republic of Rwanda, NISR: Statistical
Yearbook 2009 Edition; Republic of Rwanda, NISR, GDP Annual Estimates for 2009
based on 2006 benchmark).
4.7.6. Movement to Urban
Region
The large wage gap between rural and urban population,
especially for unskilled and semiskilled labour, indicates that dramatic
increase in number of people living in urban areas in Rwanda.
The flow of formal transfers from people living in urban areas
back to their rural region of origin has been increased rapidly and has become
the larges source of capital for many rural areas in Rwanda.
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