The perception of being a beggar nation is a central tenant to the level of which the Rwandan government views the positives and negatives of foreign aim. For most donors, the distribution of foreign aid is often based on good will nature desires to see growth and development in developing nations. Specifically, its focus is for the promotion of economic, social and governance development. The good intentions of foreign aid are sometimes misperceived, because of either different actors having different understandings to the reasons behind the distribution of the foreign aid. The second misperception originates from how the designed goal of the foreign aid sometimes is saturated in language that seems so highly focused that the message behind
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The first are by those within the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and the National Bank of Rwanda which understands more of the rationale behind the foreign aid. Recall from Rwangombwa’s comment on how IMF and World Bank officials were trying to swayed donors in 2012 from not withdrawing foreign aid based on its effectiveness for helping Rwanda develop. The institutions were concern about how the withdrawal of aid would negatively hurt Rwandans. What is important here is the perception of this act in terms of how different Rwandan bodies interpret why the IMF and World Bank was against the withdrawal. Rwangombwa is in a unique position as he is aware of the rationale behind foreign aid assistance being a positive mechanism for state construction. He did not contain misperceptions on why donors distribute their assistance to Rwanda. His understanding of the reasons behind foreign aid is not universally agreed upon within the Rwandan government. The second is by Rwandan officials who do not directly handle the foreign aid, but are impacted nonetheless by its power as a major contributor to the Federal budget. Their misperceptions of why foreign aid is distributed can be understood by their indirect relationship to bodies that directly deals with foreign aid institutions such as the National …show more content…
This view held by Senator Rutaremara and seemingly President Kagame is that Rwanda alongside with most of the continent are looked down upon based on a skew racist view of Africa. An example of this racial belief against Rwanda was during the aftermath of General Karake’s arrest. President Kagame called his arrest, “They must have mistaken him for an illegal immigrant. The way they treat illegal immigrants is the way they treat all of us. Black people have become targets for shooting practice.” Rwandans on Twitter voiced their frustration of the arrest against the British High Commission in Rwanda. The diplomatic office created a posted on its relationship with the Rwandan government since the genocide. In response, some Rwandans accused the embassy of taking away Rwanda’s dignity in a mechanism resembling neo-colonisation. In response, the British government attempted to deflect criticism by relating the arrest to upholding extradition law. However, Rwandan leaders and civilians were seemingly entrenched in Jervis’ comment of how, “there is an overall tendency for decision makers to see other states (actions) as more hostile than they are.” Nduhungirehe’s tweet of, “We say no to the West demeaning (#) Africa!”, illustrated how the arrest was seen as more hostile than its
The first are by those within the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and the National Bank of Rwanda which understands more of the rationale behind the foreign aid. Recall from Rwangombwa’s comment on how IMF and World Bank officials were trying to swayed donors in 2012 from not withdrawing foreign aid based on its effectiveness for helping Rwanda develop. The institutions were concern about how the withdrawal of aid would negatively hurt Rwandans. What is important here is the perception of this act in terms of how different Rwandan bodies interpret why the IMF and World Bank was against the withdrawal. Rwangombwa is in a unique position as he is aware of the rationale behind foreign aid assistance being a positive mechanism for state construction. He did not contain misperceptions on why donors distribute their assistance to Rwanda. His understanding of the reasons behind foreign aid is not universally agreed upon within the Rwandan government. The second is by Rwandan officials who do not directly handle the foreign aid, but are impacted nonetheless by its power as a major contributor to the Federal budget. Their misperceptions of why foreign aid is distributed can be understood by their indirect relationship to bodies that directly deals with foreign aid institutions such as the National …show more content…
This view held by Senator Rutaremara and seemingly President Kagame is that Rwanda alongside with most of the continent are looked down upon based on a skew racist view of Africa. An example of this racial belief against Rwanda was during the aftermath of General Karake’s arrest. President Kagame called his arrest, “They must have mistaken him for an illegal immigrant. The way they treat illegal immigrants is the way they treat all of us. Black people have become targets for shooting practice.” Rwandans on Twitter voiced their frustration of the arrest against the British High Commission in Rwanda. The diplomatic office created a posted on its relationship with the Rwandan government since the genocide. In response, some Rwandans accused the embassy of taking away Rwanda’s dignity in a mechanism resembling neo-colonisation. In response, the British government attempted to deflect criticism by relating the arrest to upholding extradition law. However, Rwandan leaders and civilians were seemingly entrenched in Jervis’ comment of how, “there is an overall tendency for decision makers to see other states (actions) as more hostile than they are.” Nduhungirehe’s tweet of, “We say no to the West demeaning (#) Africa!”, illustrated how the arrest was seen as more hostile than its