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KARIM TUSHABE

Coordinator- Doing Business Reforms Unit Swaziland29/5/2012.

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Full name: Republic of Rwanda Area: 26,336 km2

Capital City: Kigali

Official Languages: Kinyarwanda, English andFrench

Currency: Rwanda Francs

GDP: USD 584 (2012 Standard & Poor)

Population: 10,117,029 (2009)

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Government Strategic Objectives on reforms Engagement and Organization

Achievements

Critical Success Factors Challenges

Way Forward.

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Vision 2020: good governance, private-sector as

an engine for growth.

The President call for DB reforms - DB2008 (in2007)

RDB created, to take over RIEPA and others

Private -Public sector dialogue reforms

Consensus and shared commitment at Leadershipretreats

Support of Parliament and Judiciary: e.g. fast-tracking legal reforms

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DB reform in line with Vision 2020: Making Private-sector engine of

growth

Prime Minister

Registering

property

Dealing with

construction

permits

Paying taxes and

trade logisticsLegalLicensing reformStarting a

business

DB steering

committee

DB UNIT

PRESIDENT

Technical Task Forces

President championed

DB reforms

Ensures Milestones

Achieved

Coordinates &

monitors

reforms

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DB Unit in collaboration with stakeholders identifiesreform opportunities

Technical taskforce approves reform proposals Reforms proposals are approved, owned and the

implementation is overseen by the steering committee

DB reforms action plan is communicated acrossgovernment National leadership retreat evaluate achievement and

challenges to doing business reforms Taskforce heads and steering committee commit to

new priorities The RDB/Doing Business Unit monitors

implementation and reports to the Prime Minister Prime Minister ensures that milestones are achieved

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Company registration increased Employment increased

Taxes increased

Increased savings through social securityregistration

Overall; the business environment improved.

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Increasing in number of company registrations with theabolition of 1.2 % of initial capital & many other reforms.

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Note: Doing Business rankings have been recalculated to reflect changes to the methodology. Other

factors that cause re-calculation are new data, introduction of new indicators, addition of other

countries/economies, etc.

RWANDA'S PERFORMANCE IN DOING BUSINESS 2008-2012

DB 2008 DB 2009 DB 2010 DB2011 DB 2012

Re-calculations 148th 139th 67th 50th

Rwanda Ranking 150th 139th 70th 58th 45th

Starting a Business 71 64 11 9 8

Dealing with construction

permits 125 89 89 82 84

Employing Workers 102 113 30 - -

Getting Electricity 51 50

Registering property 138 59 38 41 61

Getting credit 141 147 61 32 8

Protecting Investors 168 171 27 28 29

Paying Taxes 54 58 60 43 19

Trading Across Borders 170 171 170 159 155

Enforcing Contracts 46 48 40 39 39

Closing a Business 178 181 183 183 165

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High level committed Leadership andinstitutional ownership

Full collaboration and participation of privatesector, civil society and all stakeholders inpublic institutions

Institutional reform and coordination.Establishment of RDB, fulltime DB

coordination unit Overall: Private sector minded government

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Enhancing entrepreneurship and innovationto sustain businesses.

Expanding access to credit and reducing ratesto borrowing

Addressing skills and capacity gaps Modernizing electronic transactions payment

systems

Addressing infrastructure bottle necks(

Energy, transport, ICT to cut down high costs Addressing non tariff barriers beyond our

borders

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45th position not enough Continued momentum of reforms of DB and

beyond

Replicating all the reforms to the rest of thecountry

Open to learning from others.

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