CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY,
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter presents the overview of the entire on the impact
of women entrepreneurs on economic development of Rwanda. It presents the
summary of the whole study the interpretation of findings and it gives
recommendation.
5.1 Summary
Women entrepreneurs in Rwanda have made a lot of progress in
Rwandan economy and Rwanda is a world leader in promoting gender equality,
providing an encouraging example of how countries affected by conflicts can
seize the reform momentum in its aftermath to support the empowerment of
women. Women entrepreneurs are relatively young, and many
turned to business in the years following the genocide. In fact, of the small
enterprises operating in Rwanda, almost 70 percent were established within the
last 10 years. A 2002 study of women entrepreneurs found that the majority is
engaged in the retail sector (82 percent), with the rest focusing on services
(16 to 17 percent) and manufacturing (1 to 2 percent) many of their businesses
are successful and large. The government's emphasis on
cooperatives has had a positive impact on women's enterprise development. As
indicated many women entrepreneurs are in art and handicraft sector through
their basket weaver cooperatives, others are in trade and service sector others
are in manufacturing sector.
The study showed that women entrepreneurs being entrepreneurs
helped them to raise their standards of living and help them to contribute to
the development of Rwanda through taxes payments, savings, jobs creation,
export promotion, and they contribute to the development of Rwanda.
Women entrepreneurs highlight lack of market, lack of
trainings, high taxes, discrimination in property right, and raw materials as
their top challenges that hinder their development.
Many researches on women entrepreneurship indicates that women
entrepreneurs contribute to the development of their country. This study has
shown the socio-economic characteristics of women entrepreneurs, and the study
showed how they contribute to the development of Rwanda.
The analysis showed that being entrepreneurs had an impact on
the increase of their monthly savings, expenditures and their working capital.
The results at 95% confidence interval using paired sample t test reject the
null hypothesis, which help as an evidence.
This research has helped in identifying the performance of
women entrepreneurs in Rwanda and increase the existence knowledge on women
entrepreneurship.
5.2 Conclusion
This study investigates the impact of women entrepreneurs on
the development of Rwanda and it took into account women entrepreneurs in Expo
2010. The whole study were divided into five parts which helped to
The results indicate that there is positive relationship
between some variables that women entrepreneurs use to contribute to the
development of Rwanda such as savings, taxes, local development, family
development and they have been tested using descriptive statistics and
inferential statistics especially correlation and linear regression some
results indicated poor results and other showed good results according to
variables under consideration.
The results indicate that women entrepreneurs constitute a
driving force in the development of Rwanda since they create more jobs, they
pay more taxes, they contribute to savings which boost investments and they
contribute to the development of their families.
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