Marcopolis presents the Ivory Coast Report featuring interviews with key executives and government officials. The sectors under review are industry, telecom, banking, capital markets, IT, oil and gas, agriculture, services, transportation, energy and more.
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Consider the processing of commodities. In the coffee/cocoa sector, Côte d'Ivoire is now at 35% of the first-stage processing of local products. Nonetheless, the target is to achieve at least 50% of the processing by 2015. This increase in production will not only create jobs, but it will also add value.
Côte d'Ivoire has a strategic position from two points of view: infrastructure and cost of energy (electricity). Côte d'Ivoire is an ideal gateway for nearly 200 million consumers in the sub-region. The strategy is to develop processing industries that can export in the sub-region.