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To the average American or even European business person, one of the most remarkable developments, not only in Cote d鈥橧voire but throughout much of the developing world, is the work of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).
For more than three decades鈥攆rom the time of its independence in 1961 to the 1990s鈥擟么te d鈥橧voire had one of the most advanced road networks in West Africa.
Today it is West Africa鈥檚 third largest Internet market after Nigeria and Ghana. It also has a mobile phone penetration rate of 70%鈥攐ne of the highest in sub-Saharan Africa.
It is expected that the Gulf of Guinea will supply about a quarter of all US oil by 2015.
The major segments of Cote d’Ivoire’s industrial sector are energy, oil and gas processing, mining, and food processing. Several major factors will continue to guide industrial growth.
SOTICI (Soci茅t茅 de Transformation Industrielle en C么te d鈥橧voire), is the leading manufacturer in West Africa of PV and Polyethylene (PE) pipes, and PVC fittings. It is also one of C么te d鈥橧voire鈥檚 major manufacturers and exporters.
Founded by an Ivorian entrepreneur in 1999, in twelve short years GLS Catering Services, Ltd., has expanded its operations into eight countries on three continents.
C么te d鈥橧voire was one of the first countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to gain full internet connectivity. Orange owns an 85% interest in Orange C么te d鈥橧voire, which began operating its network in 1996 under the Ivoiris brand, and a 45% interest in C么te d鈥橧voire Telecom (CIT), Ivory Coast鈥檚 incumbent telecommunications operator, which supplies fixed-line telephone services as well as broadband and wholesale services.
Created in 1998, the CNRA has been C么te d’Ivoire’s primary agricultural R&D agency, accounting for two-thirds of the total research capacity and over three-quarters of its agricultural R&D investments.
The new government of Alassane Ouatarra has established a new approach to agriculture in C么te d’Ivoire called the National Agriculture Investment Program (NAIP). Its goals, according to Mamadou Sangafowa Coulibaly, C么te d’Ivoire’s Minister of Agriculture, are to achieve national food sufficiency, and to increase the agricultural industry’s growth to 8.9%.
