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Expanding access: Rolling out universal health cover
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Like many of its West African neighbours, Côte d’Ivoire suffers from an underdeveloped and overburdened public health infrastructure. To address the country’s public health challenges, the government has adopted a strategy focusing on expanding access to basic care, in particular for women and children. Maternal & Child Health Care In April 2011 the Ivorian government responded to the post-conflict…

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Room and boards: Projects to build hotel and conference facilities take shape
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Supported by state efforts to expand tourism to every region, Côte d’Ivoire’s hotel infrastructure once extended throughout its territory, reaching 11,374 beds and 7786 rooms in 1997. During the civil war, however, the national hotel capacity dwindled with the destruction of many tourist buildings. After the conflict ended, estimates varied widely, ranging from 3000 beds to 10,000. Today, most…

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Going online: New technologies and infrastructure will boost connectivity
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While the current level of internet provision is surprisingly modest, the scope for growth in terms of getting Côte d’Ivoire’s population online is immense. According to World Bank’s calculations, the country’s internet penetration rate reached 2.5% in 2012, significantly lower than those in neighbouring countries such as Nigeria (32%), Senegal (19%), Ghana (16%) and Liberia (4%). The difference…

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Targeting transparency: Authorities take steps to build a more robust tendering regime
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After a decade-long crisis, Côte d’Ivoire was in urgent need investment to both maintain and expand its infrastructure networks. To accelerate the economy’s recovery and jump-start activity, the government awarded a number of no-bid contracts to expedite the tendering process, stating that priority projects needed to be fast-tracked, as happened with the Henri Konan Bédié toll bridge in Abidjan,…

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Port of call: Expansion at the two main ports should boost transit traffic
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The central location, large infrastructural capacity, and extensive road and rail connections of Côte d’Ivoire make it a natural gateway for trade to and from its landlocked neighbours: Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali. A decade of unrest, however, has weakened the country’s role as a transit gateway to the region and has seen the ports of Dakar (Senegal), Tema (Ghana), and Lomé (Togo) increase their…

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Bearing fruit: Policy changes create new difficulties for small-scale cocoa grinders
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Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s second-largest cocoa grinding hub after the Netherlands, and it produced 520,000 tonnes of processed cocoa in the 2013/14 growing year, or 12% of world cocoa processing. With a current grinding capacity of 550,000-600,000 tonnes, the government and the newly created sector regulator, the Coffee-Cocoa Council (Conseil du Café-Cacao, CCC) are seeking to boost local…

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Changing policies: Cocoa reforms have empowered farmers but presented new challenges
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Implemented in November 2011 under the auspices of the sector’s new regulatory body, the Coffee Cocoa Council (Conseil du Café-Cacao, CCC), the cocoa reforms sought to address arguably the largest obstacle to local production: price insecurity for farmers. The enforcement of a minimum 60% cost, insurance and freight (CIF) price for farmers has produced major improvements in the sector’s performance,…

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Expansion ahead: Efforts under way to rejuvenate domestic cashew and cotton production
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Under the guidance of the newly established regulator, the Cotton and Cashew Council (Conseil du Coton et de l’Anacarde, CCA), the two dominant crops of northern Côte d’Ivoire are projected to expand rapidly over the next several years to meet government objectives for production and processing. Growth in the cashew and cotton sectors will be facilitated by new regulations inspired by the success…

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Election season: The country prepares to select its next president
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Possessing a rich cultural diversity, Côte d’Ivoire is located on the coast of West Africa. As the world’s largest producer of cocoa, a regional electricity exporter and a developed financial centre, the country’s prosperity in the post-independence era allowed it to establish itself as an influential commercial and diplomatic player. Civil unrest disrupted its development over the past decade,…

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Rapid rebound: Recovery is well under way following years of uncertainty
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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, economic growth has rebounded to high single-digits…