A heavyweight within the West African Economic and Monetary Union (Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine, UEMOA), accounting for 35% of the eight-member region’s GDP, Côte d’Ivoire’s growth is a bellwether for Francophone West Africa. Driven by rising public spending and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure projects,...
The unrest that characterised the past decade greatly limited Côte d’Ivoire’s ability to play a diplomatic role, but the country’s continued economic recovery and return to greater political stability has allowed the West African country to rekindle old relationships and develop new, amicable relations with regional and international partners...
Founded in 1975, ECOWAS has been pursuing its goal of regional economic integration for nearly four decades now. In recent years, as the EU has stumbled and faltered in its attempts to create a common foreign or security policy, and debt crises have stretched the eurozone to its limits, the wisdom of regional integration as a whole has been...
Possessing a rich cultural diversity, Côte d’Ivoire is located on the coast of West Africa. As the world’s largest producer of cocoa, a regional electricity exporter and a developed financial centre, the country’s prosperity in the post-independence era allowed it to establish itself as an influential commercial and diplomatic player. Civil...
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ETIQUETTE: Business etiquette is similar to that in France. A handshake is appropriate for both men and women upon first meeting someone new. Once a woman meets someone for the second time, three kisses on the cheek, just as in some regions in France, are an appropriate greeting....
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