Although the domestic market is relatively small, with one of the world’s fastest-growing economies and an upwardly mobile population, Ghana is increasingly attractive for producers and retailers of consumer goods. Suddenly flush with cash, the ranks of Ghana’s high-income shoppers are growing and they are buying up imported products from $10,000...
Multinational beer companies are taking advantage of government incentives and using local cassava to produce low-cost brews targeted at Ghana’s growing consumer base. The population’s rising incomes and low penetration rates attracted global breweries over the last decade, and consumption of traditional malt beer is growing. But the new cassava...
The construction industry is widely expected to be one of the principal beneficiaries of Kuwait’s portfolio of KD30bn ($107.14bn) in large projects first proposed in 2010. With an evident determination by Kuwait’s latest parliament to implement key components of the National Development Plan (NDP), confidence is building within the sector, which is...
The industrial sector is looking forward to the substantial growth opportunities presented by a number of development projects announced by the government in February 2010. Many hope that 2013 will see progress accelerate on these projects after a number of delays, primarily the result of tensions between parliament and the Cabinet. While challenges...
To support industrial and economic development, the government has adopted a multipronged approach: a public investment programme to rebuild and improve infrastructure; mobilisation of private sector investment through public-private partnerships; improvements to the business environment to stimulate private sector investment more broadly; and...
Accounting for a third of all cocoa exports, and blessed with an ideal climate for a range of cash crops, Côte d’Ivoire has long derived the bulk of its export income from raw, unprocessed agricultural produce. This reliance has, however, made it dependent to a large degree on the vagaries of international commodity markets, while much of the value...
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