At the Milken Institute Asia Summit 2024, held in Singapore on 19 September, His Excellency President Paul Kagame participated in a fireside chat in which he discussed Rwanda’s socio-economic transformation journey, highlighting efforts in creating an enabling business environment, electrification progress, rule of law, and promoting gender equality.

Regarding the factors that have contributed to Rwanda’s spectacular ascendancy as a place to do business on the African continent, President Kagame said:

“[…], We created an environment in which people can invest, do business comfortably, securely, and so on and so forth. And that also has to connect with the wider market. And one of the things we considered was how do we allow freedom of movement not only within the country, of course, but, even more importantly, across the region and our continent. But, on the first one, how do people who come in to invest from outside, how do they repatriate their dividends if they have to? But, overall, there has to be clear governance that allows stability so that people doing business don’t have to worry about many other things that have nothing to do with the actual doing business”.

Click HERE to watch President Kagame's full conversation at the Milken Institute Asia Summit 2024 in Singapore.