Type: Chairman's Summing Up
Report#: 74744
Date: November 16, 2012
This tenth edition of Doing Business
sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local
entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business
when complying... Show More +
with relevant regulations. It measures and
tracks changes in regulations affecting eleven areas in the
life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with
construction permits, getting electricity, registering
property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying
taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts,
resolving insolvency and employing workers. Doing Business
presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and
the protection of property rights that can be compared
across 185 economies, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over
time. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes
and identify what reforms have worked, where and why. This
economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for
Cote dIvoire. To allow useful comparison, it also provides
data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for
each indicator. The data in this report are current as of
June 1, 2012 (except for the paying taxes indicators, which
cover the period January - December 2011). Show Less -
Type: Working Paper
Report#: 73889
Date: October 23, 2012
The health equity and financial
protection datasheets provide a picture of equity and
financial protection in the health sectors of low-and
middle-income countries.... Show More +
Topics covered include:
inequalities in health outcomes, health behavior and health
care utilization; benefit incidence analysis; financial
protection; and the progressivity of health care financing.
The tables in this report show how health outcomes, risky
behaviors and health care utilization vary across asset
(wealth) quintiles and periods. The quintiles are based on
an asset index constructed using principal components
analysis. Benefit-Incidence Analysis (BIA) shows whether,
and by how much, government health expenditure
disproportionately benefits the poor. The distribution of
subsidies depends on the assumptions made to allocate
subsidies to households. Under the constant unit cost
assumption, each unit of utilization is assumed to cost the
same and is equal to total costs incurred in delivering this
type of service divided by the number of units of utilization. Show Less -
Type: Brief
Report#: 72017
Date: August 22, 2012
Type: Summing Up
Report#: 70710
Date: June 26, 2012
This paper estimates the causal effects
of civil war on years of education in the context of a
school-going age cohort that is exposed to armed conflict in
Cote d'Ivoire.... Show More +
Using year and department of birth to
identify an individual's exposure to war, the
difference-in-difference outcomes indicate that the average
years of education for a school-going age cohort is .94
years fewer compared with an older cohort in war-affected
regions. To minimize the potential bias in the estimated
outcome, the authors use a set of victimization indicators
to identify the true effect of war. The propensity score
matching estimates do not alter the main findings. In
addition, the outcomes of double-robust models minimize the
specification errors in the model. Moreover, the paper finds
the outcomes are robust across alternative matching methods,
estimation by using subsamples, and other education outcome
variables. Overall, the findings across different models
suggest a drop in average years of education by a range of
.2 to .9 fewer years. Show Less -
Type: Policy Research Working Paper
Report#: WPS6077
Date: June 1, 2012
Author:
Dabalen, Andrew L. ;
Paul, Saumik
This issue of L'espoir contains the
following headlines: Women as Archimedes' Lever;
Citius, Altius, Fortius; Etre femme en Afrique; Projet de
Fourniture des Servic... Show More +
es Energétiques - Benin; Un combat
efficace contre la pauvreté et la protection du couvert
vegetal; Le PFSE est un grand projet qui nous a permis de
faire d'importantes realizations; Le défi énergétique
face à la reprise de l'économie ivoirienne; Togo :
Quand les manuels scolaires donnent du souffle au secteur de
l'éducation; Artiste, contre vents et marées; la
Richesse culturelle et diversité Show Less -
Type: Newsletter
Report#: 71291
Date: June 1, 2012
Author:
Diop, Makhtar ;
Gbian, Jonas ;
Diaw, Issa ;
Nenonene, Sylvie ;
Ngankam, Emmanuel Noubissie ;
Tall, Madani M. ;
Tossounon, Alain ;
Mulet, Pamela
This study analyzes opportunities for
children in Cote d'Ivoire, where opportunities refer to
access to basic services and goods that improve the
likelihood of a child... Show More +
maximizing his or her human potential.
The principle that guides this analysis is one of equality
of opportunity, which is that a child's circumstances
at birth should not determine his or her access to
opportunities. The analysis computes the Human Opportunity
Index, which measures the extent to which access to basic
services is universal and evenly distributed among children
of different circumstances. Opportunities are limited in
Cote d'Ivoire, despite some improvements in access to
electricity and timely access to primary education.
Otherwise, trends on access remain stagnant. Scale effects
(variations across the board) are behind these trends, with
little improvement observed from equalizing interventions.
Circumstances such as region and household head
characteristics affect a child's access to
opportunities, while household incomes and a child's
gender and ethnicity play a relatively small role in access
differentials. Public spending on education opportunities is
shown to be regressive and pro-rich, especially when
analyzed across the distribution of circumstances rather
than acroos income level.The groups of children that are
particularly behind in terms of educational opportunities
are those whose household heads lack primary education and
reside in rural areas. Closing the enrollment gap of these
children should be a priority for targeted educational
interventions. However, improving opportunities may require
more than a single type of intervention: opportunities with
low coverage may need to be scaled up, while those with
large inequalities of access may require equalizing interventions. Show Less -
Type: Policy Research Working Paper
Report#: WPS6048
Date: April 1, 2012
Author:
Abras, Ana ;
Narayan, Ambar ;
Cuesta, Jose ;
Hoyos, Alejandro
Cote d'Ivoire is recovering from
over a decade of socio-economic conflict that culminated in
a five-month post-electoral crisis and short-lived civil
war. The conflict... Show More +
brought economic activity to a standstill,
severely affected basic social service delivery, and further
damaged the countrys social fabric. In spite of the severe
economic crisis, short- to medium-term growth prospects for
Cote dIvoire are good, provisional on a steady
post-conflict recovery. The government of Cote dIvoire is
committed to a priority socio-economic recovery program, and
a critical aspect of this agenda is the rehabilitation and
expansion of infrastructure services, which will be
particularly critical to help domestic and external trade,
and ultimately to address the overarching challenge of
generating employment opportunities. To re-launch economic
growth and address the infrastructure gap, the government
intends to promote the involvement of the private sector,
including through innovative contractual public-private
partnership (PPP) approaches to leverage financing and
enhance efficiency of service delivery. Show Less -
Type: Brief
Report#: 75610
Date: April 1, 2012
Cote d'Ivoire was an economic
success story in the first twenty years of independence, but
a sharp reversal began in 1980 and by 1993 per capita
incomes was back to... Show More +
the level of 1960. Devaluation of the
African Financial Community (CFA) franc triggered an
economic rebound, but this was soon undermined by the
political crisis beginning in 1999. Just as the economy was
starting to move forward, a new crisis struck in early 2011,
with considerable loss of life and assets. Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) growth will be significantly negative in 2011,
after 30 years of almost uninterrupted decline in per capita
incomes and a rise in poverty from 10 percent in 1985 to 43
percent in 2008. The country is in urgent need of rapid and
inclusive growth to reduce poverty, create jobs, provide
hope for a better future, and help heal the wounds in the
social fabric. The report devotes some attention to two key
backbone services transport and telecommunications. The
transport sector facilitates exports of goods, and access to
essential imports, but also represents a service export in
its own right (for neighboring land-locked countries). The
focus here is on the 'soft' side of transport
procedures, regulations and services which are often
overlooked in favor of hard infrastructure investments.
Improvements on the soft side are typically more
cost-effective if only because they cost little or no money. Show Less -
Type: General Economy, Macroeconomics and Growth Study
Report#: 62572
Date: March 20, 2012
The Executive Directors approved a
single tranche grant to the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire
in the amount of SDR 93.9 million (US$150 million
equivalent) on the payment... Show More +
terms and conditions set out in
the President's Memorandum. Directors expressed support
for the objectives of the grant and welcomed its alignment
with the government's new poverty reduction strategy.
Speakers emphasized the need to support government recovery
efforts and deepen reforms in public expenditure management.
Directors also urged enhanced governance, transparency and
accountability in the key sectors of cocoa, energy and
finance and expressed hope for timely progress toward
Completion Point for Heavily-Indebted Poor Country (HIPC)
debt relief. Executive Directors endorsed the grant's
emphasis on promoting reconciliation, youth employment, and
economic recovery. Show Less -
Type: Summary of Discussion
Report#: 64583
Date: September 15, 2011
Cote d'Ivoire is the second largest
economy in West Africa, accounting for almost 40 percent of
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the 8-member West African
economic monetary... Show More +
union. Cote d'Ivoire's large
share of youth population (41 percent of the country
population is younger than 15 years old) provides a window
of opportunity for high growth and poverty reduction-the
demographic dividend. Gender equality and women's
empowerment are important for improving reproductive health.
Greater human capital for women will not translate into
greater reproductive choice if women lack access to
reproductive health services. It is thus important to ensure
that health systems provide a basic package of reproductive
health services, including family planning. Show Less -
Type: Brief
Report#: 62933
Date: April 22, 2011
Cote d'Ivoire displays equal or
lower prevalence of child stunting than several African
nations with similar per capita incomes, including Sudan and
Lesotho. However,... Show More +
many nations in the region with lower or
similar per capita income than Cote d'Ivoire also
display lower prevalence of stunting, including Ghana,
Mauritania, Kenya, and Sao Tome and Principe. Adequate
intake of micronutrients, particularly iron, vitamin A,
iodine, and zinc, from conception to age 24 months is
critical for child growth and mental development. The World
Bank is not currently supporting any nutrition projects in
Cote d'Ivoire, but provides discrete support to policy
development activities, such as a nutrition landscape study
in FY10. Show Less -
Type: Brief
Report#: 77156
Date: April 1, 2011
This Investment Climate Survey Report
(ICSR) for Cote d'Ivoire evaluates the country's
business environment by (i) analyzing barriers to private
sector investment and... Show More +
growth and how they vary among
different types of firms, (ii) benchmarking the Ivorian
investment climate and firm performance to that of other
countries and (iii) providing recommendations to promote and
strengthen the private sector. The ICSR is supported by the
statistical analysis of a survey of firms based in Cote
d'Ivoire's major urban centers, as well as data
from other sources. This ICSR identifies key areas where
investment climate reforms may be warranted. It is largely
based on the analysis of Enterprise Survey data; which are
surveys of mostly manufacturing, formal sector enterprises
in the major industrial centers of an economy. Cote
d'Ivoire is one of the very few countries in
Sub-Saharan Africa with a ratio of manufacturing to GDP
higher than 15 percent. Show Less -
Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)
Report#: 69767
Date: March 2, 2011
Infrastructure contributed 1.8
percentage points to Cote d'Ivoire's annual per
capita GDP growth over the mid-2000s before conflict began
to erase the country's infrastructure... Show More +
and its growth
contributions. Raising the country's infrastructure
endowment to the level of the region's middle-income
countries could boost the growth rate by a further 2
percentage points. Private sector contracts signed in the
1990s resulted in improved operational performance and
funding for investments in the water, power, transport, and
ICT sectors. Impressively, those contracts survived the
crisis and delivered uninterrupted service. But private
investment flows have decreased since the mid-2000s. Cote
d'Ivoire's most pressing infrastructural challenge
will be to regain the financial equilibrium needed to
restore a reliable energy supply. Reestablishing the
prominence of Abidjan's port will require investments
in terminal capacity and road and rail infrastructure
upgrades on hinterland linkages. The underfunding of road
maintenance and poor sanitation are additional challenges.
Cote d'Ivoire's annual infrastructure spending was
$750 million in the mid-2000s, with going to power sector
operations and maintenance. If the underpricing of power and
other inefficiencies (valued at $200 million annually) were
eliminated, the countrys annual infrastructure funding gap
would amount to $1 billion, and infrastructure goals could
be reached within 20 years. Cote d'Ivoire's has
relatively good prospects for bridging its funding gap by
raising public investment from its low current level,
choosing more efficient technologies, and harnessing
additional private investment for infrastructure. Show Less -
Type: Policy Research Working Paper
Report#: WPS5594
Date: March 1, 2011
Author:
Foster, Vivien ;
Pushak, Nataliya
The International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)/International
Development Association (IDA) trust funds country report
FY2009-FY2010 for Cote d'Ivoire... Show More +
includes:
disbursements, approvals, and pending requests. Show Less -
Type: Annual Report
Report#: 58975
Date: January 1, 2011
Doing Business sheds light on how easy
or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run
a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant
regulations.... Show More +
It measures and tracks changes in regulations
affecting 10 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting
a business, dealing with construction permits, getting
electricity, registering property, getting credit,
protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders,
enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency. In a series of
annual reports Doing Business presents quantitative
indicators on business regulations and the protection of
property rights that can be compared across 183 economies,
from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time. This economy
profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Cote
d'Ivoire. To allow useful comparison, it also provides
data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for
each indicator. The data in this report are current as of
June 1, 2011 (except for the paying taxes indicators, which
cover the period January- December 2010). The data not only
highlight the extent of obstacles to doing business; they
also help identify the source of those obstacles, supporting
policy makers in designing regulatory reform. Show Less -
Type: Working Paper
Report#: 65256
Date: January 1, 2011
The Status of Projects in Execution
(SOPE) Report for FY10 provides information on all
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(IBRD), International Development... Show More +
Association (IDA), and
trust funded projects that were active as of June 30, 2010.
The report is intended to bridge the gap in information
available to the public between the project appraisal
document or program document, disclosed after the Bank
approves a project, and the implementation completion
report, disclosed after the project closes. In addition to
the project progress description, the FY10 SOPE report
contains project level comparisons of disbursement estimates
and actual disbursements, and a table showing the
loan/credit/grant amount and disbursements to date. Show Less -
Type: Annual Report
Report#: 57182
Date: October 3, 2010
This issue of L'espoir contains the
following headlines: Cote dIvoire: les enjeux economiques
dune election; Le Taureau par les cornes: un conseil
Presidentiel su... Show More +
r la question de lemploi en Cote
dIvoire;Togo: Pour une reliance des secteurs traditionnels
de leconomie; Une visite aus pas de course par Madani M.
Tall au Burkina Faso; Revue conjointe des portefeuilles au
Burkina Faso; Cote dIvoire Le defi des infrastructures;
The Community Action Program responds to crises in Nigers
fragile environment; La Banque mondiale, une maison de
verre; Le fabuleux destin de Marie Diongoye konate, linsubmersible. Show Less -
Type: Newsletter
Report#: 64940
Date: September 1, 2010
Author:
Foster, Vivien ;
Kamil, Hamoud Abdel ;
Mensah, Lawrence Henri ;
Sellen, Daniel M. ;
Sid'Ahmed, Taleb Ould ;
Nenonene, Sylvie ;
Ngankam, Noubissie Emmanuel ;
Tall, Madani M.
Cote d'Ivoire is the second largest
economy in West Africa. It is one of eight member states of
the Uemoa and is also a member state of Ecowas. It applies
the Uemoa... Show More +
Common External Tariff (CET) which consists of
four tariff bands at zero, five, ten, and twenty percent. To
prevent trade disruption with the European Union (EU) at the
end of 2007 when the trade component of the Cotonou
agreement ended, Cote d'Ivoire has negotiated and
signed an interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with
the EU. Under the agreement, Cote d'Ivoire will remove
tariffs on 80.8 percent of the goods originating in the EU
by 2023. The tariff removal has started in 2010 with tariff
reductions for the first 576 lines, for 406 lines from 5 to
0 percent, for 160 lines from 10 to 0 percent, and for 10
lines from 20 to 0 percent. Using the Tariff Reform Impact
Simulation Tool (TRIST) developed by the World Bank, this
short note presents the simulation results of the impact of
this Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) on fiscal revenues
in Cote d'Ivoire. It finds that the interim EPA is
likely to lead, at full implementation, to a loss of annual
fiscal revenue in the order of less than CFA 43 billion,
representing 2.2 percent of total 2007 government revenue.
This reduction in fiscal revenue will occur over 15 years
and will be at least partially compensated by growing import
volumes as the economy grows. Show Less -
Type: Brief
Report#: 60022
Date: August 1, 2010
Author:
Hoppe, Mombert
The purpose of this country
environmental analysis (CEA) is to assist the Government of
Cote d'Ivoire, development partners and civil society
to integrate environmental... Show More +
issues into policy dialogues and
country programming through: a) assessing environmental
priorities in Cote d'Ivoire, b) identifying
environmental implications of key policies, c) evaluating
the country's institutional capacity to address their
priorities; and d) identifying practical environmental
governance, financial, institutional and policy solutions to
promote environmentally and socially sustainable natural
resources management coupled with sustainable growth. This
CEA is also expected to contribute toward the inclusion or
mainstreaming of environmental considerations into
macro-economic and sector policies and programs, in addition
to the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), which are a
prerequisite to sustainable development. This CEA study
further complements ongoing efforts by the Bank in the
mining, petroleum, cocoa, and agricultural sectors. In sum,
the purpose of this CEA is to improve the analytic basis for
environmental decision making to help ensure that the
efforts to support poverty reduction, broad-based reforms
and environmental management are mutually reinforcing. This
CEA aims to promote in particular the Government's
efforts toward realizing millennium development goal (MDG):
ensure environmental sustainability. In addition, by
reducing the disease burden of environmental risk factors,
environmental sustainability underpins the achievement of
most MDGs, given that many MDGs have an environmental health component. Show Less -
Type: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)
Report#: 54429
Date: June 1, 2010
