4.3.3. Respondents' views on
obstacles met while doing the long-term profitable project
In order to verify the hypothesis stated that ``the economic
development of Rwanda requires optimism of its people'', the researcher asked
the question intending to identify the main obstacles personally met by the
respondent during the conception and the realization of a long-term profitable
project.
The answers are shown in table 4.7.
Table 4.7. Respondents' views
on obstacles in doing long-term profitable project
|
Obstacles
|
Number of respondents
|
Percentages
|
|
Lack of intellectual capacity
|
136
|
18.89
|
|
Low level of life expectancy
|
13
|
1.81
|
|
To be discouraged by others
|
93
|
12.92
|
|
Both the low level of life expectancy and the
discouragement
|
28
|
3.88
|
|
Any
|
450
|
62.50
|
|
Total
|
720
|
100
|
Source: Primary data.
Table 4.7 reveals that 18.89% of the respondents don't make
any long-term profitable projects because they don't have intellectual capacity
to do so. It is a pity for them and for the country. However, this doesn't
prevent the researcher from affirming that this percentage is too small
(doesn't reflect the reality) considering people that don't have intellectual
capacity to make projects but don't want to unveil themselves.
The 1.81% of the respondents put in reason the level of life
expectancy. It is a pretext to not make a project; the true problem is the
ignorance.
The 12.92% of the respondents affirmed that they have been
discouraged by the behaviors of those who should sustain them. On the one
hand, there is a small number of those who have really been discouraged by the
ignorance or discriminations from some decision-makers. On the other hand,
either people submit the badly conceived projects, either the projects are not
feasible, either, in consideration of the financial constraint, these projects
are not in the important sectors.
Concerning the case n° 4, in which the researcher
suggested the respondents to mention other major constraints that they meet
during the conception and the realization of the long-term profitable projects,
some of them stated that it is the lack of necessary investments, the others
said that they are sure to 100% that if they make projects that ask for an
external financing, they would be inevitably rejected. Then, they prefer to not
waste their time. The researcher reacted while including those people in case
n° 1: lack of intellectual capacity.
The 3.89% of the respondents put in reason both the level of
life expectancy and the discouragement caused by behaviors of those that should
sustain them. Those people are desperate; they look for all possible means to
justify why they don't make any long-term profitable project.
The 62.50% of the respondents stated that they don't meet any
obstacle. Among these, there are those who live in the comfortable families
that don't need to make projects to live better, others prefer to remain as
they are without making projects, no matter their living conditions.
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