Top 5 reasons to invest in Rwanda

Strong macroeconomic growth

• 8.8% average year-on-year GDP growth since 2004
• GDP growth rate in 2008 of 11.2%, highest among East African countries
• Controlled inflation, increasing government tax revenues and stable exchange rate

Stable governance climate

• Politically stable with a visionary leader at the helm hailed by many as a "CEO President of Rwanda Inc. "
• Zero tolerance for corruption and extremely low levels of crime
• Elected officials, Parliamentary system and established court systems with separate Commercial courts

Investor friendly and open for business

• World’s top business reformer by the 2010 Doing Business report compiled by the World Bank
• Private investment a top priority for President Kagame
• No sectors barred to foreign investors and no restrictions on the percentage of equity they might hold
• Starting a business and registering property easy – fastest in the region and 11th in the World
• Attractive incentives and simple taxation
• Creation of Industrial park, technology park and free trade zone
• Development of capital markets beginning with the stock exchange

A gateway to East Africa and the continent

• Central location – borders Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and DRC
• A hub for the rapidly integrating EAC which includes Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi – a market of 125M people with combined GDP of USD 70 billion. Share a Customs Union, and will form a Common Market in 2010
• Efforts to combine the East African Community, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, and the Southern Africa Development Community underway, putting 600 M people into a single market.

Abundance of opportunities

• Despite its remarkable progress, Rwanda remains largely virgin territory for investors. Across the board, there are many unexploited opportunities.
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