by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 20, 2023 | Economics
Rwanda’s economy has grown for two decades on a narrow base — agriculture that employs most people but adds little value, services concentrated in Kigali, and a manufacturing sector still finding its feet. Productivity, not activity, is the constraint. On 20...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 20, 2023 | Money
Rwanda knows how to write a strategy and how to launch a public platform. What it has never had in abundance is capital — deep domestic savings, patient private funding, a balance sheet large enough to absorb the cost of new infrastructure without help. So when the...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 20, 2023 | Consumers
Africa has no shortage of AI ambition and a serious shortage of AI governance. Strategies are announced across the continent; frameworks that tell researchers, firms and regulators how to actually operate are rare. Rwanda, a small landlocked economy with more...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 20, 2023 | Content
In a season of AI announcements, the scarce commodity is not ambition but evidence. Claims travel faster than the documents that would verify them, and a policy becomes a headline long before anyone assembles the record behind it. Rwanda’s national...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jan 1, 2020 | Property
A financial centre is sold as a regime, but it is delivered as real estate. Behind the language of funds and jurisdictions sit land, permits, engineering and the unglamorous economics of commercial space. As 2020 opens with the Kigali International Financial Centre...