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This review is devided into two rather distinct parts. Chapt. 1 and 2 give first a brief overview of the country's economy and its manufacturing sector and then a more detailed review of the structure and development of its manufacturing industries. Chapt. 3 contains various kinds of reference material on national plans and policy statements relevant to industrial development

Knapper länderkundlicher Überblick mit aktuellen statistischen Angaben u.a. zu den Bereichen Wirtschaft, Energie und Umwelt. Detaillierte Analyse des Erdölsektors (Bedeutung, Entwicklung, Produktion, Lagerstätten, Mineralölunternehmen, Weiterverarbeitung, Export)

1979 wurde in der Elfenbeinküste das 'National Committee for Computer Utilization' gegründet. Ein Entwicklungsplan 1981-85 führte zu einem stetigen Aufschwung. Darstellung staatlicher Programme im Managementbereich, der Bedeutung für die ländlichen Entwicklung sowie der Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten und Arbeitsplatzprobleme. (DÜI-Wsl)

Paraphrasing Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian politician Camille Aliali once said, "Democracy is a system of government for virtuous people. It seldom works even in mature countries. We must be realistic. Our people are ignorant of the problems we face. They cannot be left to choose the solutions,...." In 1990, the president and his close associates changed their minds. On May 3, 1990, the president of Côte d'Ivoire announced the legalization of opposition parties and the intent to hold multi-party elections. On October 28, Ivoirians voted in their first multi-candidate presidential election, which pitted the eighty-five year old Houphouët against long-standing critic and candidate of the "democratic left" coalition, Laurent Gbagbo.

This volume analyses the decline of Cote d'Ivoire's celebrated development miracle of the 1960s and 1970s into a major macroeconomic crisis at the beginning of the 1980s and persistent recession thereafter. The first part of the book provides a brief overview of Cote d'Ivoire's history and economic structure. It focuses on the country's huge public sector, the functioning of export markets and the foreign trade regime, and the organization of factors' markets. The second part is devoted to the crisis of the 1980s, its causes and the difficulties in overcoming it. The third part is oriented toward Cote d'Ivoire's prospects for the long run. The structural changes that have taken place during the crisis are discussed, and a simple analytical model is presented to indicate the crucial obstacles to the country's economic recovery. The book closes with suggestions for possible reforms in the trade regime, in the organization of the public sector, and in the short-run macroeconomic decision framework, with special emphasis on the constraints arising from the membership in the CFA franc zone and the West African Monetary Union. (DÜI-Hff)

Though studies of capitalism in Africa traditionally focus on the activities of foreign investment, in Cote d'Ivoire capitalist development has been largely the work of a domestic class of entrepreneurs. This book traces the history of Cote d'Ivoire's capitalist development, beginning with early European contact and bringing the story up to the present decade. The author demonstrates that a dynamic capitalist class has emerged in Cote d'Ivoire, one neither subordinate to foreign interests nor synonymous with the bureaucratic or political elite. These indigenous entrepreneurs, the author posits, as a class control the Ivoirien state, and it is indigenous Ivoirien capitalism that has been primarily responsible for the growth of the country's economy. (DÜI-Hff)