Rwanda invests in model villages to tackle poverty
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Rwanda is expanding a rural development program that is slashing poverty, but at the expense of free choice. Are the benefits worth it?
By Tara Heidger
Rwanda is tackling poverty through a controversial rural development program that the government plans to expand aggressively in coming years.
Over the last decade, more than 4,000 Rwandan families have been resettled into model villages. The villages feature three-bedroom brick homes equipped with water, solar panels and sanitation systems, a...
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