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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND
MANAGEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED STATISTICS
ACADEMIC YEAR: 2010
DEDICATION
To Almighty GOD,
For your immeasurable help, mercy and grace,
To my beloved
foster mother,
For her immeasurable help, care and advices
To my family
and friends,
For your care, love and help
To my late mother
This dissertation is dedicated.
DECLARATION
I, HIRWA Pacifique, a student at the National University of
Rwanda, Faculty of Economics and Management (FEM), Department of Applied
Statistics (DAS), hereby declare that this dissertation entitled
«The impact of women entrepreneurs on economic development of
Rwanda a case study of Expo 2010 at Rwanda Private sector federation Gikondo
from26th/08 to 8th/9/2010» is my own
work and it has not been submitted anywhere for the award of any degree.
Name of the student: HIRWA Pacifique
Signature of the student
Date 8t/10/2010
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The following work is not only an individual work .I could
never have accomplished it without help, support, guidance and efforts of a lot
of people to whom I owe my thanks. I would like to gratefully and sincerely
thank all individuals who helped me during my education career. Here I want to
mention my beloved foster mother MUKABASHIMA Agnes for her advices, financial
support, encouragement, moral support, my family member especially my brother
BYIRINGIRO Jean Pierre, NSHIMIYIMANA Jean Pierre and all my family, friends all
your advices, moral, love has contributed to successful accomplishment of this
work.
I would like to thank my research supervisor Ms. NIWEMAHORO
Celine for her immeasurable commitment, effort, positive criticisms and
willingness to spare and given up her scarce time to help me acquire new skills
in Statistics .I have to recognize that without her devotion and skills, this
work would not have been done.
I also have great pleasure to thank the Faculty Management and
economic especially applied statistics department's lecturers for their
devotion and professionalism showed during my undergraduate studies.
It would be ungrateful to forget to thank all women
entrepreneurs who agreed to answer my questionnaires, in Expo 2010 chosen for
my study. Without their answers and recommendations, this work would have been
meaningless.
I would also like to thank all those who have, in various
ways, supported me during this work, and whose their names are not written
here, that they find here the expression of my deep recognition.
I say God bless you all
HIRWA Pacifique
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION i
DECLARATION ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS iv
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS vii
LIST OF TABLES ix
LIST OF FIGURES x
LIST OF APPENDICES xi
ABSTRACT xii
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1
1.1. Background to the study 1
1.2 Statement of the problem 2
1.3 Objectives of the study 3
1.3.1 General objective 3
1.3.2 Specific objectives 3
1.4 Research hypotheses 4
1.5 Significance of the study 4
1.6 Methodology 4
1.6.1 Primary data 4
1.6.2 Secondary data 5
1.6.3 Data processing 5
1.6.4 Data analysis 5
1.7 Scope of the study 5
1.8 The Organization of the Study 6
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 7
2.1. Introduction 7
2.2 Definitions of the concepts 7
2.2.1 Entrepreneurship 7
2.2.2 Entrepreneur 7
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2.2.3 Historical background of Entrepreneurship 7
2.3 Women entrepreneurship 8
2.3.1 Women entrepreneurship in the global economy 8
2.3.2 Women entrepreneurship in Africa 9
2.3.3 Women entrepreneurship in Rwanda 11
2.4 Economic development 11
2.4.1 Definition 11
2.4.2 Women Entrepreneurship and economic development
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CHAPTER THRE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 13
3.1. Introduction 13
3.2 Sources of data 13
3.2.1 Primary Data 13
3.2.2 Secondary Data 14
3.3 Sampling techniques 14
3.3.1 Area of study 14
3.3.2 Population 14
3.3.3 Sample size determination 14
3.4 Data processing 15
3.5 Data analysis 15
3.6 Limitation to the study 16
CHAPITER FOUR: DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF
RESULTS 17
4.1. Introduction 17
4.2 Socio-economic characteristics of women entrepreneurs in EXPO
2010 17
4.2.1. Demographic characteristics of women entrepreneurs in
EXPO 2010 18
4.2.2 Cross tabulation between business type and age of
respondents, marital status,
education background 19
4.2.3 Reasons why women become entrepreneurs 21
4.2.4 Source of finance when they become entrepreneurs
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4.3 Analysis of the contribution of women entrepreneurs on
economic development of Rwanda
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4.3.2 Contribution of women entrepreneurs to export
development 24
4.3.3 Contribution of women entrepreneurs to local
development 25
4.3.4 Presentation and analysis of Contribution of women
entrepreneurs to family development 27
4.3.4.1 Improvements in lifestyle of women entrepreneurs after
becoming entrepreneurs 27
4.3.4.2 Impact of the increase in family size on current monthly
expenditures of women entrepreneurs 29
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