ABSTRACT
According to data retrieved from the World Bank Development Indicators, Rwanda is one of the poorest countries in Africa. The country reduced the percentage of people living below the poverty line from 57 per cent in 2005 to 39.1 per cent in 2014. The measurement and analysis of poverty are important for different reasons. Poverty severity helps construct a measure of poverty that takes into account the inequalities among the poor; some researchers also use the squared poverty gap Rwanda has made vast improvements in reducing poverty in the past decade. Coffee is the main export revenue contributor and makes up a quarter of its total export value, while Rwanda's mountain-grown tea is considered to be one of the finest in the world. About 90 per cent of the Rwandan population is engaged in agriculture as a means of survival.
