Hi Roving Bandit blog fans! Long time no write. I've just relocated from London to Kigali, so I'm hoping that being in a more stimulating environment is going to encourage me to start blogging more frequently. Probably the best economics blog in Rwanda!
I'll kick things off by just regurgitating some recent twitter chat. A couple of days ago I posted Gallup survey findings that Rwanda is the 3rd most accepting countries for migrants in the world (pretty cool Rwanda).
This would indeed be worrying were it the case, but I was sceptical. Afrobarometer doesn't actually operate in Rwanda, but I thought I'd take a look at some responses on some of the surveys that have been done here.
First, the 2014 National Household Survey asks people about satisfaction with some government services.
- 45% said they were dissatisfied with water services
- 23% said they were dissatisfied with roads
That seems to be a lot of people who were not afraid to give a negative answer to a survey.
The 2015 DHS asks people about their experience of personal violence, and a large number of people do say they have been affected.
Finally, a 2016 government survey by the Rwanda Governance Board also asked people about their satisfaction with a range of government services. Some were pretty positive, some not so much. There was
- 31% net dissatisfaction with social protection services
- 38% net dissatisfaction with hygiene & sanitation services.
- 45% net dissatisfaction with infrastructure services
These do not at all look to me like the kind of numbers you'd expect from people so cowed by fear that they are afraid to give negative responses to an anonymous survey. Maybe its time for the team at Afrobarometer to take another look at Rwanda?
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