Cote d’Ivoire: escalating ethnopolitical tensions

Summary: Political and economic risk will increase as the country’s 2020 elections draw near, leading to a negative outlook on the Ivoirian economy with a consequential cost to its Eurobonds Analysis Ethnopolitical tensions within and between political parties of Cote d’Ivoire, undeclared presidential aspirations for the country’s 2020 elections, persistent security gaps at key points in the country, and softer agro-industrial activity will raise budgetary pressure on and compromise the economic growth prospects of the government of President Alassane Ouattara. The resultant intensification of Ivorian geopolitical tensions and fiscal degradation over the next two years will weigh negatively on Cote …

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