Governments in the region have been urged to extend tax incentives to youth entrepreneurs to encourage young people to start business.
"Governments only focus on giving tax incentives, including tax holidays, to foreign investors yet less is done to extend such incentives to the youth," Dickson Malunda, a senior researcher and economist at IPAR- Rwanda, said, adding that lack of incentives had left many youth at the mercy of commercial banks.
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