Last week, at the first meeting of the Comité Technique de Suivi du Plan National de Développement (PND) 2021 – 2025, Côte d’Ivoire’s Minister of the Economy, Planning and Development, Nialé Kaba, announced that implementation of the Plan had reached 53.7%. « The GDP growth rate is estimated at around 6.5% in 2023, compared with 6.2 in 2022. The volume of investments in 2023 is 12,137.2 billion FCFA, bringing the level of execution over the 2021-2023 period to 31,700.8 billion FCFA out of the 59,000 billion FCFA planned, » she said, according to an official document. This corresponds, she continued, « to an execution rate of 53.7% of the overall volume. As a result, the total investment rate has risen from 25.2% of GDP in 2022 to 25.5% in 2023, and the tax burden rate has improved from 12.5% in 2022 to 13.3% in 2023 ». The document points out that the representative of the development partners, Massimo Scalorbi, who is also Head of Cooperation for the European Union delegation, praised the efforts made by the Ivorian government, with a steady increase in the state budget over the last six years, reflecting Côte d’Ivoire’s ambitions for emergence. #OMA #OrganisationMarocAfrikaCulturesetDéveloppement #NajibKettani #Economy #CoteDIvoire #PND2021A2025 #NialéKaba
