While Kenya is no stranger to political strides experienced across the region, the country has managed to avoid long periods of crisis – whether political, economic or social – and has been able to overcome its challenges in relatively short periods of time.
Plusieurs projets de logements sociaux ont été lancés à Djibouti à l’heure où le pays cherche à accélérer la construction d’habitations et à attirer davantage d’investissements privés dans le secteur afin de répondre à une demande croissante.
One of East Africa’s largest economies and most popular tourist destinations, Tanzania is reputed for its stability in the region. Its extractive wealth, favourable climate for agriculture, and natural assets such as Mount Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti National Park have helped it build a relatively high rate of growth over the last decade, averaging 6-7% per year.
Tunisia is working to gradually improve its economic indicators by means of tough yet necessary structural reforms. Although significant strides have been made since 2011, the country continues to face acute macroeconomic imbalances, while coincident reforms have suffered from changing administrations in the years following the revolution, negatively affecting economic growth.
While high nominal growth in some years was partially a result of inflation, real sector growth also ran in the double digits between 2013 and 2015, averaging 23.9% across the period and standing at 28.3% in 2015, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finances. In current prices, the construction sector’s value-added was equal to 5.9% of...
In 2010 President Alassane Dramane Ouattara announced plans to build 60,000 housing units. The current deficit is estimated at 400,000 to 600,000 units, with demand growing by 40,000-50,000 units each year. To bridge the shortfall, the state launched the Presidential Housing Plan in May 2013, hoping to add 150,000 units by 2020. Under the...
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