The role of SMEs in rwanda from 1995 to 2010( Télécharger le fichier original )par Clotilde MUKAMUGANGA National University of Rwanda - A0 2011 |
DECLARATIONI Clotilde MUKAMUGANGA hereby declare that this dissertation entitled «the role of small and medium enterprises on Rwandan rural development» is my own work and it has not been submitted anywhere for the award of any degree. Clotilde MUKAMUGANGA Signed.....................................
DEDICATIONTo the Almighty God for his blessing, To my late parents with my whole family for their endless affection, To my brothers, my friends and beloved relatives, I dedicate this dissertation. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTI would like first to acknowledge and thank Almighty God for loving and blessing me since my birth until now. I thank particularly Dr. Martin MUGENZI who devoted part of his time to the supervision of this work. His invaluable guidance contributed to the successful completion of this dissertation. I recognize my late parents who cared for me since the time of birth .I would expend my thanks to all people and best friends, especially, my sister Dancille NIRAGIRE and her husband Mr. Olivier RWAKAZINA and their families who more contributed to the achievement of this dissertation. Thanks go to my friends and colleagues classmates in the economic department especially my boyfriend Paterne RUKUNDO for making my student life enjoyable.
May God bless them in whatever they do! LIST OF ABBREVIATIONSCOMESA: Common Markets of East and Southern African states EAC: East African Community EU: European Union GDP: Gross Domestic Product IFC: Investment Facility Climate ISO: International Standard Organization KBO: Kagera Basin Organization MINAGRI: Ministere de l'Agriculture RDB: Rwandan Development Bank SMEs: Small and Medium Enterprises SPSS: Scientific Packages for Social Sciences USD: United State Dollar TABLE OF CONTENTSCHAPTER I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1 1.2. Background of the study 2 1.8. Identification of study variable 4 1.9.3. Scope in domain/ field 5 1.10. Significance of the study 5 1.12. Organization of the study 6 CHAPTER.II. DIFFERENT LITERATURES ON THE TOPIC 7 2. 2. Definition of the concepts 8 2. 2.2.Small and medium enterprises (firms) 8 2.3. Growth of small businesses 10 2.4. Competitive advantage and the small firm sector 12 2.5. Promoting small and medium enterprises 13 2.5.1. The government contribution 13 2.5.2. The business and civil contribution 14 2.6. Finance sector and SMEs 15 2.7. The Importance of Agriculture in Development 15 2.8. How Small and Medium Enterprises can drive Africa's economies 17 2.9. SMEs as part of crisis recovery 18 2.10. General Review of small and medium enterprises in Rwanda 18 2.11.1. Problems of Rwandan rural areas 20 2.12. Definition of Small and Medium Enterprises in Rwanda 20 2.13. Failure causes of small and medium enterprises in Rwanda 22 2.14. Problems encountered by small and medium scale enterprise in Rwanda 23 CHAPTER III .RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND PROCEDURE 25 3. 4. 1. Population determination 27 3. 5.Sample size and selection techniques 27 3. 5. 1. Stratified sampling 28 3. 5. 2. Simple random sampling 28 3. 6. Data collection methods and instruments 29 3. 6. 2. Interview Schedule 30 3. 7. Data processing and analysis 30 CHAPTER IV.DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION 33 4.2. Presentation of urwibutso enterprise 33 4.3. Urwibutso enterprise's historical and evolution 33 4.4. Status of urwibutso enterprise 34 4.5. Geographical situation 35 4.6. Principle mission of urwibutso enterprise 35 4.7. Objectives of enterprise 35 4.8. Basic activities of enterprise 36 CHAPTER V: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 48 |
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