Кот-д'Ивуар запускает план развития до 2030 года с целью привлечения 203 млрд долларов инвестиций

Ivory Coast’s new 2026–2030 national development plan is seeking to extend the country’s foreign investment tear as it tries to mobilise CFA114,840bn ($203bn) in total investment to “accelerate the structural transformation of the economy”, most of which will have to come from private domestic and foreign investors. “Ivory Coast has one of the stronger investment propositions in west Africa, supported by relatively strong economic growth, political stability, improving infrastructure and its position as a regional commercial hub,” Leeuwner Esterhuysen, Ivory Coast country economist at Oxford Economics Africa tells fDi Intelligence. The world’s biggest producer of cocoa and the third-largest economy in west Africa after Nigeria and Ghana, Ivory Coast has seen FDI levels soar in this decade. Headline FDI exceeded $2bn for the second time ever in 2025, after first breaking that threshold in 2023, according to Unctad data. So far in the decade, annual FDI has averaged $1.6bn — around three times as much as in the 2010s, Unctad figures show. Launched in July, the 2026–2030 NDP expects 70 per cent of the total investment required to supercharge the Ivorian economy to come from the private sector, with FDI playing a key role. “To ensure the effective mobilisation of private investment, the government intends to implement measures to incentivise and attract FDI, to promote local content and to develop national champions,” the document reads, adding that it wants to channel foreign capital towards “promising and labour-intensive sectors”, including those outside the extractive sector. Ivorian Prime Minister Robert Beugré Mambé said during a meeting with development financiers in Abidjan in July that the west African country is diversifying economic activity, with fresh FDI investment opportunities in infrastructure development, digitalisation of the economy and services, financial services as well as agro-processing. Esterhuysen agrees, highlighting that FDI investment opportunities in Ivory Coast are “shifting from a commodity-led story towards a broader proposition centred on manufacturing, services, logistics [and energy]”. Credit goes to European, Chinese and other international investment inflows. The Chinese are participating under the Belt and Road Initiative, through which infrastructure and construction projects such as the expansion of the port of Abidjan, construction of the massive Cocody Bridge as well as sports complexes have been completed. European investors have also been active, with French companies involved in the Abidjan Metro, a rapid transport rail network. Belgian firm Besix has developed the Abobo Tunnel to ease traffic congestion in Abidjan. Nathan Hayes, Ivory Coast analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit, says that local and international investment is flowing into the Ivorian agro-processing sector too as a result of government tax incentives. The government is now planning to launch 14 special economic zones to incentivise investment into prioritised sectors. The road to reform remains uphill. Negative perceptions have persisted around the fourth re-election of President Alassane Ouattara in October 2025, when he won 90 per cent of the votes, amid accusations of silencing opposition candidates. US-based non-profit Freedom House considers the country “partly free”. The business environment has room to improve too. While the World Bank’s B-Ready 2025 report puts its regulatory framework features in the third quintile — alongside countries like New Zealand, Ghana and Uruguay — it slips in the fourth and fifth quintiles for quality of public services and operational efficiency, respectively. But economic and reform momentum have been reinforcing each other in recent years. The IMF commended the country’s “sustained reform efforts” in a report in June, adding that “sustained structural reform momentum will be important to support inclusive, private-sector-led growth under the 2026–30 National Development Plan”.