TAG: Economy
The recent victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election has fostered uncertainty within the Mexican business community. Hundreds of articles have been written about what could happen if NAFTA were reviewed and how Mexico would cope without its major trading partner.
“Abidjan is a boom-town with an exploding economy, shipping out great quantities of coffee and timber and manifesting a flair for making a real splash in terms of putting on the dog.”
That sentence (which prompted to me look up the meaning of “putting on the dog,” a 19th century phrase implying luxury and glamour, and referring to men’s stiff so-called dog collars worn at formal events) was written in 1971 by an American journalist of Cote d’Ivoire’s then-capital, suggesting the West African economy was on a fixed path towards prosperity.