While Côte d’Ivoire has a natural advantage in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine, UEMOA), with the region’s largest market and most developed infrastructure, authorities are striving to improve the country’s soft infrastructure to improve rankings in international investment climate...
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Articles & Analysis | Open for business: Efforts to improve the country’s pull for investors are bearing fruit from The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2015
Articles & Analysis | Rapid rebound: Recovery is well under way following years of uncertainty from The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2015
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,...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Donald Kaberuka, President, African Development Bank: Interview from The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2015
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Bolstered by the economic rebound since 2012, double-digit growth in Côte d’Ivoire’s insurance sector is attracting new entrants and product innovation. While it is the largest market of the 15-country Inter-African Conference of Insurance Markets, the sector is fragmented for its size. With large-scale public projects expected to generate strong GDP growth in 2014, the priority will be to...
Chapter | Capital Markets from The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2015
Host to francophone West Africa’s regional stock exchange, the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM), Côte d’Ivoire has a more sophisticated financial services industry than most of its peers in the region. The sixth-largest of Africa’s 29 exchanges by capitalisation, the BRVM has seen the market value of its listed equities grow over five-fold from CFA1.02trn (€1.53bn) at its...