Côte d’Ivoire

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 -

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 -

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 -

Cote d'Ivoire is the world's top exporter of cocoa and raw cashew nuts, a net exporter of oil, and has a sizeable manufacturing sector. It is the largest economy in... Show More + the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), accounting for 40 percent of the Union's gross domestic product (GDP). The country's influence on the sub-region is also significant due to its size (19 million people), its relatively high income per capita (US$960 in 2007), and its role in transit trade for landlocked neighboring countries. While the country boasts enormous potential, years of crisis, economic mismanagement and poor governance have taken a heavy toll on the economy and social outcomes, transforming the once-model African nation into a fragile state blighted by high levels of poverty (reaching nearly 50 percent in 2008 compared to 10 percent in 1985), a breakdown in key institutions and social capital, and the slow deterioration of basic social and economic infrastructure. Show Less -

This review was conducted in Cote d'Ivoire with the goal of establishing the reference situation of the management and system of public finances, including procurement,... Show More + and facilitating the monitoring of the impact of the reforms to improve the management and efficiency of public policies and their fiduciary framework. The review presents three in-depth analyses. After summarizing the main conclusions and recommendations of the priority measures, the review presents the results of the following analyses: i) public expenditure review, which analyses recent macro-economic and fiscal developments in relation to the budget execution and Cote d'Ivoire's poverty reduction strategy; ii) review of the public financial management system, conducted on the basis of the findings of the "Public Financial Management Performance Report" (PFM PR), which constitutes volume two of this review. The PFM PR was prepared using the "Public Financial Management Performance Measurement Framework" established in the context of the partnership under the "Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability" (PEFA) program; and iii) review of the public procurement system prepared on the basis of findings of the "Public Procurement Assessment Report". This report, which constitutes three volumes of this review, was prepared according to the methodology for assessment of national procurement systems approved by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD's) Development Assistance Committee (DAC). At the end of each review, the report proposes an exhaustive action plan of corrective measures for enhancing the efficiency and transparency in the use of government resources and improving the public finance management system and the quality of procurement. Show Less -

Water demand is increasing three times faster than the world's population growth rate. By 2025, 30 percent of the world's population-a record 2.3 billion people in 50... Show More + countries-will be threatened by water scarcity. The gloomy arithmetic of water is alarming and cries out for solutions. The recently-concluded Third World Water Forum in Japan is helping catalyze actions for a water-secure world. Given that 70 percent of the world's freshwater is used in agriculture, CGIAR had a major presence at the Forum which was the largest ever, attracting thousands of participants from 182 countries. The Forum offered new opportunities for building partnerships and strengthening cooperation with key Ministries such as Foreign Affairs, and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. "Harnessing the potential of water as a driver of responsible growth is key to meeting the challenges of water, food, and income security," said Ian Johnson, Chairman, CGIAR. "Science and technology must be brought to bear on the water challenges. CGIAR has a key role to play in developing the next generation of less thirsty crops, farming practices and policies." He chaired a sub-group of the "Ministerial Conference on Water for Food and Rural Development" charged with examining ways to improve the efficiency of water use in agriculture. Ministers from 96 countries participated in the ministerial meeting held in conjunction with the Forum. Show Less -

Labor costs in Francophone Africa are considered high by the standards of low-income countries, at least in the formal sector. Are they a brake on industrialization,... Show More + or the result of successful enterprise development? Are they imposed on firms by powerful unions, or government regulations, or a by-product of good firm performance? The authors empirically analyze what determines manufacturing wages in Cote d'Ivoire, using an unbalanced panel of individual wages that allows them to control for observable firm-specific effects. They test the rent-sharing, and hold-up theories of wage determination, as well as some aspects of efficiency-wage theories. Their results lean in favor of both rent-sharing, and hold-up, suggesting that workers have some bargaining power, and that in Cote d'Ivoire workers can force renegotiation of labor contracts, in response to new investments. Show Less -

Roundup : oil : into the Caspian sea, and Asia : pieces of the puzzle; by Linda McCormick. Dealing with the devil - the hell of corruption; by Philip Segal. Just what... Show More + the Doctor ordered - prescriptions for private health care in developing countries; by Sally Gelston. Echoes of a Bank - raising a region's standards; by Rob Wright. Client perspectives : Champion of change - Louis V. Gerstner. Brain waves : man of culture. Show Less -

Cote d'Ivoire's fortunes have fluctuated dramatically over the past thirty years. Throughout this period the Bank has been firm in its support, especially since the... Show More + boom of the 1970s gave way to the protracted crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s. As in many other countries, the Bank initially tackled the crisis by changing its assistance focus from investment loans to quick-disbursing loans aimed at policy reforms. From 1988 to 1996, adjustment loans accounted for three-quarters of all Bank lending to Cote d'Ivoire Show Less -

These proceedings from a workshop in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, organized jointly by the government of Cote d'Ivoire, the Public Administration Division of the United Nations... Show More + Secretariat, and the World Bank, focus on aiding Francophone African countries with public sector reform. They draw broadly on best practices derived from both Anglophone and Francophone Africa, and from the experiences of the industrialized as well as the developing countries. The first of two parts comprises papers, the core of the workshop discussions, concerning public sector management as viewed by industrialized, then developing countries. The key themes center on professional ethics, accountability, and transparency to combat corruption and deliver improved services. The papers also present guidelines leading to effective reform, and discuss better coordination among lenders in supporting reform. In the second part, country administrators illustrate these themes by using their countries -Burkina Faso, Botswana, Uganda, and Cote d'Ivoire- as case studies. This part ends by reviewing several initiatives creating local capacity in Mali and Senegal to improve the quality of public services for users. The third and last part of these proceedings is devoted to distilling the debate's essential elements, and presenting the workshop's conclusions and recommendations. Show Less -