{"id":1862,"date":"2014-10-08T07:54:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T06:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2014-10-08T07:54:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T06:54:42","slug":"burundis-economic-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundis-economic-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi\u2019s economic future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teachers and students of different universities recently discussed the World Bank report on Burundi\u2019s economic situation. They suggested ideas to improve the economic outlook of the country.<\/strong>-J.Berchmans Siboniyo<\/em><\/p>\n

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: Lecturers of different universities exchanging ideas with students on how to improve the economic situation of Burundi \u00a9 Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

The World Bank suggests that increasing export and developing the mining sector can be useful toolsfor Burundi\u2019s economic growth. During a meeting at the University of Burundi last week, several university lecturers and students agreed. However, they belief it isdifficult to boost these sectors because thegrowth barrier is internal.<\/p>\n

\u201cBurundi\u2019s coffee is appreciated worldwide. Nevertheless, the quantity is not nearly enough to cover the requests from all around the world. Burundians should prioritize to farm it. Unfortunately the government is not doing anything to encourage farmers to make it a priority. Instead, some farmers say that they will only keep up the coffee trees which are along the street and uproot the coffee trees thatare in other plots of land, so they can farm other produce\u201d, says Fran\u00e7ois Bararuzunza, a lecturer at University of Burundi.He goes on saying that food security is the main issue, because those who uproot their coffee trees do it because they are hungry. \u201cThe tourism industry should be developed to bring in foreign currency.\u201dBararuzunza indicates that Burundi has many opportunities to develop the tourist sector. He mentionsthe source of the Nile, the hippopotamus in Lake Tanganyika, Mwishangafalls and other attractions.<\/p>\n

L\u00e9onidasNdayizeye, a teacher in the Sciences and Management Department, indicates that overpopulation is a barrier to the economic growth. \u201cAs long as the population keeps on increasing, we will never be able to change the economic situation. If we want to attain significant growth, we must produce more than we consume. Yet, at the moment, agricultural output does not even cover our consumption. People are dying of hunger.\u201dHe proposes that the government should provide selected seeds and fertilizers to the population.<\/p>\n

Fran\u00e7ois Birehastates that Burundian enterprises mustlearn how to profit from the youth\u2019s talents. \u201cEnterprisesin Burundi must be harmonized with those elsewhere in the region. To attain that, young people must be employed. Supervision should be done in such a way that the young people can bring long term results.\u201d He gives the example of the palm oil industry in Rumongecommune and fruit industries in different areas in the country that are performingwell,but are not known outside the region. He also notes that corruption must be abolished if Burundians want to improve economically.
\n\u201cUniversity students must change their mentality. Many of them are becoming more attached to the land than their parents, whereas they have the knowledge that enables them to do something different\u201d, says one assistant teacher at the University of Burundi. He indicates that few Burundians attain university degrees, only 5% of the youth, according to the WB report. He encourages Burundian youth to be visionary and pursue advanced studies.
\nThe participants say the mining sector would help improve the economic and financial situations. However, they unanimously said that the sector is not well monitored, without specifying the flaws hampering the sector\u2019s development.<\/p>\n

To finalize, the participants of the meeting suggest that Burundi\u2019s government consult with economic agents and specialists in order to prioritize projects for implementation. The government must also employ the youth and support their projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teachers and students of different universities recently discussed the World Bank report on Burundi\u2019s economic situation. They suggested ideas to improve the economic outlook of the country.-J.Berchmans Siboniyo The World Bank suggests that increasing export and developing the mining sector can be useful toolsfor Burundi\u2019s economic growth. During a meeting at the University of Burundi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[735,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}