Representing 25% of the French-speaking African market, the Ivoirian pharmaceuticals sector grew 8% between 2011 and 2012, and is expected to continue expanding as the country recovers from the recent conflict. Popular medications include drugs for infectious diseases, inflammation medications, antibiotics against bacteria, and medicines for mother...
Creating a new capital city ex nihilo is not as unusual as it might sound. Throughout history, kings, emperors, presidents and generals established their seats of power in any number of relatively uninhabited (or uninhabitable) places – out of marshland in the case of Washington DC, or a damp fishing village in the case of Tokyo. But in...
I. GENERAL LEGAL ENVIRONMENT: undefined A. Sources of Law: Côte d’Ivoire has a civil law system where laws are compiled in codes and establish what is legal and what is illegal. The higher law is the version of the Constitution adopted by referendum on July 23, 2000. The Constitution includes laws that...
Following a sociopolitical crisis that lasted for more than 10 years, since 2012 Côte d’Ivoire has quickly resumed its economic growth. Indeed, 2012 was a year of strong growth, as GDP increased by 9.8% in real terms, while 2013 will most likely record a similar increase. This growth is based on increased demand due to increases in public and...
Although sporadic conflict over the past 15 years has complicated development efforts in Côte d’Ivoire’s media sector, more recently new opportunities for growth in each form of media have emerged. The print media faces serious financial constraints, yet the return to relative stability is set to enable vendors to sell publications to areas...
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