La relance de l’investissement public et des résultats encourageants dans les secteurs hors hydrocarbures ont porté la croissance de l’économie algérienne en 2018, une tendance qui devra toutefois être confirmée en 2019 dans un contexte de ralentissement de la croissance mondiale, de volatilité des prix du pétrole et d’une légère réduction de l’investissement public.
Economic update | Algérie : Bilan de l’année 2018
Articles & Analysis | Reforms to increase private sector influence ahead of 2020 presidential elections in Côte d’Ivoire from The Report: Cote d’Ivoire 2019
Although the country’s humid climate hinders the preservation of biological remains, archaeological finds suggest that humans may have inhabited areas that became Côte d’Ivoire as early as the Neolithic period, from 15,000 BCE onwards. The first recorded history, however, comes from Berber merchants from North Africa who plied trans-Saharan...
Articles & Analysis | Fiscal reforms improve Côte d’Ivoire's tax revenue from The Report: Cote d’Ivoire 2019
In its ambition to maintain sustainable growth, one of the main challenges faced by Côte d’Ivoire is its capacity to increase income, particularly its tax revenue. Although the amount of duties collected rose steadily in recent years, the tax-to-GDP ratio has remained relatively low, rising modestly from 15.1% in 2015 to 16.5% in 2018, some...
Articles & Analysis | Integration among emerging economies and new multilateral agreements bolster international trade from The Report: Cote d’Ivoire 2019
Global trade faces protectionist headwinds that are dampening the outlook for growth in the coming years. According to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), trade volume grew by 4.7% in 2017 and is expected to have moderated slightly to 4.4% in 2018 and dip to 4% in 2019. Although this means growth will fall below the 4.8% average seen since...
Articles & Analysis | Changing global migration patterns and growing anti-migration sentiment from The Report: Cote d’Ivoire 2019
As the world’s nations and businesses become increasingly interconnected, so too does the flow of global migration. According to the OECD’s “International Migration Outlook 2018”, in 2017 some 258m people resided in a country other than the one they were born in and more than 5m foreign-born persons settled in OECD countries. The flow of...