This paper explores the political economy of growth in Rwanda during two decades of
economic expansion under the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). It builds on recent work
emphasising the importance of party-owned enterprises in sustaining this progress, but goes
further by analysing state-business dynamics in four key sectors of the economy: coffee,
mining, construction and financial services. For each sector, the evolution of the 'deals
environment'(Pritchett and Werker 2012) is detailed and the differential degrees of growth …