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This was the first coup d'état in the history of Ivory Coast. An economic downturn followed and the junta promised to return the country to democratic rule in 2000. Guéï allowed elections to be held the following year. When he lost the election to Laurent Gbagbo, Gué at first refused to accept his defeat. However, street protests forced him ...
In 2023, Ivory Coast had the second-highest GDP per capita in West Africa, behind Cape Verde. [14] Despite this, as of the most recent survey in 2016, 46.1% of the population continues to be affected by multidimensional poverty. [15] In 2020, Ivory Coast was the world's largest exporter of cocoa beans and had high levels of income for its ...
Under his government, Ivory Coast took the course of liberal free market economy and expanded its cash crop sector. It became one of the largest producers of coffee and cocoa in the world. In 1955, Caisse de Stabilisation et de Soutien des Prix Agricoles (CAISTAB) was founded to control the prices of coffee and cocoa.
The Ivory Coast gained its independence on 7 August 1960. [89] At independence, those who had French nationality and were natives of Ivory Coast as of 1946 were conferred the Ivorian nationality. [90] On 14 December 1961, the first Ivorian Nationality Code (Loi N°. 61415) was adopted, based on the French model.
The 1999 Ivorian coup d'état was the first coup in the history of independent Ivory Coast and led to the deposition of President Henri Konan Bédié.The soldiers executing it were led by Tuo Fozié, and former military commander Robert Guéï was soon invited to lead a National Public Salvation Committee (French: Comité National de Salut Public).
Moreover, Ivory Coast's liberal investment code encouraged capital-intensive rather than labor-intensive industrial development. [3] Consequently, industrial growth contributed little to the growth of an industrial labor force or a domestic market, and prices for consumer goods remained high, reflecting the high costs of production and ...
The location of Ivory Coast An enlargeable map of the Ivory Coast. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Ivory Coast: Ivory Coast – country in West Africa. An 1843–1844 treaty made Ivory Coast a protectorate of France and in 1893, it became a French colony as part of the European scramble for Africa. Ivory ...
Ivory Coast is divided into five levels of administrative subdivision, but these divisions are not written into the constitution. It is divided into 14 first-level districts, 31 second-level regions, 108 third-level departments and 510 fourth-level sub-prefectures. By law, districts are to be headed by governors appointed by the central ...