Côte d’Ivoire Côte d’Ivoire has a reputation for friendliness towards private investment, despite having experienced a coup d’état in 1999, faced civil war from 2002 to 2003 and undergone a political crisis after the presidential elections of 2011. With reconstruction currently underway, the country offers many business opportunities for private investors. Côte d’Ivoire’s economy is primarily based on agriculture. It is the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans. It also produces coffee, palm oil and bananas in significant quantities. The country has recently become a producer of oil and mineral resources. The currency used in Côte d’Ivoire is the franc of the African Financial Community (the CFA ), which is fixed to the Euro and guaranteed by the French Treasury.
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