Foreign investments tend to raise the standards of professionalism resulting in better products and better services, enticing Rwandan entrepreneurs to do the same. Foreign investment also creates new supply and complementary markets for Rwandan entrepreneurs can occupy. Foreign investments and local entrepreneurship are therefore strongly interlinked. In the same way as a tree cannot grow in a desert, foreign investment cannot succeed without a vibrant small and medium entrepreneurship ecosystem.
— Alice Nkulikiyinka
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Foreign investments tend to raise the standards of professionalism resulting in better products and better services, enticing Rwandan entrepreneurs to do the same. Foreign investment also creates new supply and complementary markets for Rwandan entrepreneurs can occupy. Foreign investments and local entrepreneurship are therefore strongly interlinked. In the same way as a tree cannot grow in a desert, foreign investment cannot succeed without a vibrant small and medium entrepreneurship ecosystem." in the context of "A tree cannot grow in a desertThe New Times (February 27, 2023)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Alice Nkulikiyinka is the country Director of BPN Rwanda (Business professionals Network), a Leading Development Service deliver, in Rwanda Since 2011. She worked close to fifteen years in the banking sector in the renown Swiss firms Telekurs (Six group) and Avaloq. As project manager, product Manager and Department head, she managed International teams in Zurich, London and New York City, among other places. She also managed Banking projects in Hong Kong and Singapore. Alice Nkulikiyinka holds a Master of Science in Economics and Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences at worms, Germany and a Master of science and information Management, University of Constance, Germany.
About Alice Nkulikiyinka
Alice Nkulikiyinka is the country Director of BPN Rwanda (Business professionals Network), a Leading Development Service deliver, in Rwanda Since 2011. She worked close to fifteen years in the banking sector in the renown Swiss firms Telekurs (Six group) and Avaloq. As project manager, product Manager and Department head, she managed International teams in Zurich, London and New York City, among other places. She also managed Banking projects in Hong Kong and Singapore. Alice Nkulikiyinka holds a Master of Science in Economics and Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences at worms, Germany and a Master of science and information Management, University of Constance, Germany.