Launched in 2010, the Emerging Gabon Strategic Plan (Plan Stratégique Gabon Emergent, PSGE) aims to reduce Gabon’s reliance on oil production by 2025 through the development of three sectoral-focused pillars: Green Gabon, which targets timber, agriculture and ecotourism; Industrial Gabon, which emphasises value addition through local processing of raw materials; and Gabon...
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Articles & Analysis | Gabon focuses on diversifying industry and supporting local processing from The Report: Gabon 2016
Articles & Analysis | Gabon's Nkok SEZ making an impact on industry and drawing in investment from The Report: Gabon 2016
Special economic zones (SEZs) have become a popular way for governments around the world to try and accelerate investment in select sectors and industries, and for its part Gabon has seen more success than most. In an effort to attract the investment that was pledged under the Industrial Gabon pillar of the Emerging Gabon Strategic Plan, an...
Articles & Analysis | Gabon's mining sector absorbing the drop in commodity prices from The Report: Gabon 2016
While oil has been the driving engine behind Gabon’s economy since independence, the country’s other underground resources have in many ways been equally prominent. The mining sector has traditionally been a major currency earner for Gabon. The country is the world’s fourth-largest producer of manganese, with reserves of 150m tonnes and...
An oil-rich equatorial country in West Africa, Gabon’s abundant natural resources have given it one of the highest per capita incomes on the continent, though lower oil revenues has seen growth contract in recent years.
Economic update | Le Gabon mise sur la transformation du bois pour diversifier son économie
23 Oct 2016
Les autorités gabonaises renforcent encore les exigences liées aux exportations de bois dans le but d’augmenter les recettes commerciales et de rehausser la valeur de l’industrie de la transformation du bois.
Le Gabon a donné un coup d’accélérateur à sa stratégie d’accroissement de la valeur ajoutée dans les industries extractives avec l’inauguration officielle cet été d’un institut technique spécialisé dans les métiers de la mine et de la métallurgie.