What are the short- and mid-term strategic sectors identified by the FGIS at a national level?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Nina Abouna, Director-General, Agency for the Promotion of Investment and Exports from The Report: Gabon 2014
What will be the main functions of the planned single service window and how will it benefit international investors?
Articles & Analysis | The country’s sound economy is an example for sub-Saharan Africa from The Report: Gabon 2014
Classified by the World Bank as an upper-middle income country, Gabon enjoys an average per capita income – estimated at €8950 in 2013 – that is far higher than the sub-Saharan Africa developing country average of €1212. Oil revenues have sustained the economy, accounting for 56% of total revenues and 80% of total exports by value, according...
Articles & Analysis | Collaborative projects: The government seeks partners for large developments from The Report: Gabon 2014
A push to realise infrastructure development and management has led the Gabonese government to sharpen its focus on public-private partnerships (PPPs) as a means of sharing the risks and cost of major development initiatives. The government’s plan for achieving emerging market status by 2025, “Emerging Gabon”, emphasises the importance of the...
Articles & Analysis | The government is working to rein in spending from The Report: Gabon 2014
The country is pressing on with its Emerging Gabon plan (Plan Stratégique Gabon Émergent, PSGE) to reach emerging country status by 2025, but it faces near-term fiscal challenges – in part a result of the necessary high capital spending – as it lays the long-term foundations for sustained economic growth. As of late 2013, the Gabonese government expected increases in...
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Magloire Ngambia, Minister of Investment Promotion, Infrastructure, Housing and Land Management from The Report: Gabon 2014
How is the Gabonese government encouraging growth throughout the country and tackling the specific challenge of decentralising investments?