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Côte d'Ivoire
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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Adama Toungara, Minister of Petroleum and Energy from The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2013
Articles & Analysis | Finding the right partners: Investment plans require greater private sector involvement from The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2013
Deep in debt from a decade of economic stagnation and years of civil war, Côte d’Ivoire cannot do it alone. That is why its government, led by former International Monetary Fund (IMF) economist Alassane Dramane Ouattara, is working to woo private partners to rebuild the resource-rich West African nation. Over the past 10 years, Côte d’Ivoire has...
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Mark Simmonds, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office from The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2013
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Articles & Analysis | Growth prospects: The north is set to get a much-needed push from growth in cotton and cashew nut from The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2013
Once the predominant cash crop of the north and key generator of export earnings, the cotton sector saw production fall from 400,000 tonnes per year in 2001 to 100,000 tonnes in 2008. Mismanaged liberalisation policies, a fall in global cotton prices and civil war led to farmers abandoning cotton for other cash and staple food crops like cashew nut...
Articles & Analysis | Paying off debt: The country is striving to take charge of its credit from The Report: Côte d'Ivoire 2013
Côte d’Ivoire has seen a dramatic turnaround in its fiscal health in recent years, with an improving outlook for headline growth and a reduced debt load. When the Ivoirian economy hit the skids from the late 1970s onwards, its debt levels spiralled ever higher, increasing ten-fold between 1975 and 1995. Private sector creditors predominated until...
