ibc swaziland - doing business reforms in rwanda 29052012
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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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Companies
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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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