ETIQUETTE: Business etiquette is similar to that of France. A handshake is appropriate for both men and women when first meeting someone new. When a woman meets someone for the second time, three kisses on the cheek are an appropriate greeting. Before discussing business, it is polite to break the...
Instructor quality is a major driver of students’ educational experiences, and often teachers play an important role in maintaining satisfactory retention rates. Although a February 2017 World Bank report highlighted teacher training as an area of comparative weakness in Côte d’Ivoire, the government is working diligently to address it. One...
Although countries vary when it comes to their economic priorities, the need for increased skilled labour is both a cause of and requirement for accelerated growth that spans markets and continents. This demand for technical specialists from Mexico to Indonesia is often most concentrated in the sectors that are vital to economic advancement,...
The recent 2018 financial law has introduced a new set of legislations that aim to modernise international taxation in Côte d’Ivoire, and more specifically, to strengthen the domestic rules on transfer pricing. In that regard, the country has positioned itself on the OECD rules on base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) by adopting two key...
With a 2016 GDP growth rate of 7.9% far outstripping most of sub-Saharan Africa, Côte d’Ivoire has the right economic conditions to bring about substantial and permanent developmental change. However, a February 2017 report by the World Bank titled “The Skills Challenge: Why Côte d’Ivoire Must Reform Its Education System” highlighted that...
In recent decades, pharmaceuticals production has expanded its geographical reach. This trend appears to be here to stay; in a 2015 survey of major pharmaceutical firms conducted by global consulting firm Strategy&, more than half of respondents anticipated that over 30% of their global sales would originate in emerging markets by 2018....
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