How Rwanda is changing under Paul Kagame?

Rwanda enjoys the GDP growth of eight percent over the last five years.

Rwanda is one of the poorest places and was the biggest aristocracies in the Sub-Saharan Africa in the history of mankind. In 1994, Rwandan government killed dozens of people in protest. That was the time of starvation, famine and undrinkable water in the country. The genocide continued till late 1994. Every one out of five Rwandans was brutally assassinated according to the reports. The country rose after the genocide and found it difficult to pace up the different sector of economy.

 

The mind of Rwanda Paul Kagame

After the resignation of Bizimungu in March 2000, current president Paul Kagame, who later has become the greatest Rwandan leader ever emerged. Subsequently, he won the election in 2003 and made his position more secure.

Areas with vast killing rate in Rwanda till 1994

The experts predicted that this was the decision of Rwandan people towards more failure and economic collapse. Instead, for the reason of Kagame’s omnipresent appearance, he led to this small country in the middle of the continent towards a role model of economic growth and sustainability for African countries.

 

Rwanda found in Sub-Saharan Africa

Surprisingly, Rwanda is lacking out of natural resources and mining opportunities. Still, its economy is growing at a record rate of eight percent over the past couple of years and this is where Kagame’s hope for prosperity is working. But, how did he do that? Let us find the methods what Rwanda is applying, which will also be beneficial for other African countries to implement on.

GDP per Capita of Rwanda

All citizens are Rwandans

Government set up a constitution that forbids using any word showing ethnic superiority. In past, Hutis and Tutsis used to fight for a longer period of time under Belgian colonialism. After 1962, when Belgium left the country into the hands of locals, the dispute even emerged more strongly. Ethnic groups were killing the people brutally on the basis of breed, till the arrival of Kagame.

Even the media, politicians even a common man cannot glint the words of ethnic violence. On a slighter note, this repression made them not even to criticize the government.

Advisory council

Kagame set up a team to visit new emerging countries at that time like China, Singapore and Taiwan. The team arranged meetings with politicians, economists and other officials. Consequently, Rwanda got the tips on different topic.

Rwandan President with members of Advisory council

Later, the council assisted the president to build a formula to remove economic hurdles in the country. New Rwandan constitution was set up and council identified the targets to make Rwanda a modern county with the need of time. However, the main focus was on to grow Rwanda a middle income country in just two decades.

Vision 2020

Rwanda’s authorities made vision 2020 to achieve the best out of possible. The vision 2020 had forty four clear and culpable objectives. For instance, it focused on an efficient state; skilled human capital with high quality of education and health facilities, Kagame’s administration promised a world class physical infrastructure.

Vision 2020 so far analysis and observations

Additionally, government laid the emphasis on Modern agriculture and livestock. Especially, governments and private firms are analyzing the progress and results of described targets. The results about the vision are quite encouraging.

Gender Equality

According to Rwandan constitution, at least fifty percent of all government posts are to be held with women. In fact, the Rwandan parliament enjoys the highest contribution of female politicians than the entire world. Females are leading the country in every sector either in business or services.

Women parliamentarians with President Kagame

Agricultural incentives

Rwanda’s eight percent of population works in the fields. As a result, governments subsidize them with low tax collection. However, the structure of tax collection is highly formulated.

Rwandan fields are producing their best out of extreme facilities provided

Additionally, government very wisely spends the amount of tax collected. Government has build power generator and roads to increase the agricultural output and to make this sector efficient. Therefore, farmers are selling their crops to neighboring countries. As a result Rwanda’s exports are boosting up.

Technological steps

Rwanda under Kagame’s presidency relies heavily over technological steps. The country recently has made a deal with South Korea over 4G internet network. Thereupon, Ninety five percent of Rwandan population will have access to high speed connectivity to the entire globe in a year or two. Rwanda has the potential to become the IT hub of Africa.

Analysis

Paul Kagame’s own democracy is working since years. He is been the elected president of Rwandan people. Over ninety five percent of population votes for him.

Sustainable economic growth, political and infrastructure system is the main focus of the government. In my words, Rwanda has done great in terms of all these sectors. It has had the impressive growth in terms of exports and GDP rate. However, the President needs to put his focus on couple of more challenges. These include problems with large trade deficit, low added value of manufacturing sector and dependency on external aid. Additionally, there lies an employment problem in the country. Rwanda has got a large size of population with limited employment opportunities. But, as things are moving towards right direction we can hope this will be the main focus of Paul Kagame in coming times. Limiting these drawbacks will be crucial in short and long terms in order to achieve sustained economic transition.