4.5.5. Quality of life,
poverty and economic inequality
Some desirable features that one may think of are reflected in
GDP: Spacious, well constructed homes, good restaurants and stores, a variety
of entertainment and high quality medical services. However other indicators of
good life are not sold in market so may be omitted from GDP.
In Rwanda absolute poverty has been declining. Today many
families whose income is below to days' official line is 57% and own their
health insurance and in some cases their own homes, and cow due to the one cow
one family project by which living conditions of poor families has been
improved and malnutrition has been reduced.
But, even though absolute poverty seems to decrease in Rwanda,
inequality of income has not generally well improved. In contrast, because GDP
focus on total production rather than on the distribution of output, it does
not capture the effects of inequality.
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