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Côte d'Ivoire · Construction

Market study: construction in Côte d'Ivoire

The largest market in the union, and one of the slowest

The largest construction market in French-speaking West Africa, and one of the slowest growing. This study establishes why, from public sources read one by one, and states what it could not establish.

Country
Côte d'Ivoire
Sector
Construction
Length
49 pages
Publication
Forthcoming

What the study contains, part by part

19 parts and 81 sections. Nothing here is a heading without content: each section carries its own figures, with their source.

  • What this study establishes
  • Three findings
  • What this study does not cover
  • Size and trajectory
  • Construction within the economy
  • Materials and output
  • The union's largest market
  • And the slowest growing of its large neighbours
  • The union's eight markets, country by country
  • What the regional comparison teaches
  • A sector banks barely finance
  • The nature of credit has changed
  • The cost of credit
  • A large housing shortfall
  • The presidential programme and its limits
  • The affordability wall
  • Income distribution
  • and 1 further section on the same pattern
  • Clearing customary land rights
  • What a foreign buyer cannot do
  • Title deeds and their delays
  • What the portal publishes, and what it does not
  • The construction share
  • Who wins the contracts
  • Public procurement region by region
  • and 3 further sections on the same pattern
  • The construction and housing code
  • Building permits
  • The state of legal publication
  • The social housing regime
  • The franc zone and currency
  • Measures year by year
  • How these scenarios are built
  • Three trajectories
  • The variables that govern
  • What would knock each path off course
  • Ministry-approved operators
  • A two-tier market
  • The most active companies
  • Housing developers
  • and 1 further section on the same pattern
  • What this section does, and does not do
  • Foreign direct investment flows
  • A foreign developer that entered in 2018
  • A listed local operator
  • and 1 further section on the same pattern
  • Building permits by municipality
  • By category of use
  • Where approved housing is built
  • What the country imports
  • The materials needed to close the housing gap
  • The announced industrial strategy
  • How households are housed
  • Household income
  • Dwelling size and access to basic services
  • The public housing operator
  • The final concession order
  • Land titles in the regions
  • Subdivisions
  • Coverage by planning documents
  • and 1 further section on the same pattern
  • Who may build, and under what conditions
  • Insurance and liability
  • Penalties incurred
  • Off-plan sales
  • and 1 further section on the same pattern
  • Amendments are the rule, not the exception
  • By how much a public works contract slips
  • The contracting authorities that amend most
  • Bypassing competition: direct awards
  • and 1 further section on the same pattern
  • Points of caution
  • Checks before committing
  • How this study is built and verified
  • What this study could not establish
  • Source table
  • Series used
  • Figure register
  • Method and limitations

A free extract, to judge on the evidence

6 pages reproducing, unchanged, the study summary and its section on the execution of public contracts, with the full detailed table of contents.

Available at publication

Who it is for

It is written for someone who has to settle a real decision, not to illustrate a slide deck.

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European construction firms

You bid for contracts in the region or are considering setting up there. The study gives the access framework, the real delays on land titles, and what becomes of contracts once they are awarded.

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Investors

You are assessing a case in the region. The study shows who has invested in recent years, with what amounts, and what the filed accounts have shown since. It recommends nothing.

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Operators already present in the union

Eight countries share one currency, one central bank and one company law. The study compares them on the same series, which no publication does, and places the Ivorian market among them.

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Advisory firms

You advise on this region and must answer quickly with sourced figures. Each figure carries its source and its period, and the appendix lists them all.

Method and sources

Where the figures come from

No figure is typed in by hand. Each one is computed from a single register where it carries its source and its period, then recomputed a second time from the raw data, independently of that register.

BCEAO, base de données économiques et financières Ministère de la Construction, du Logement et de l'Urbanisme Direction générale des marchés publics Presidency, Council of Ministers BRVM, issuer financial statements World Bank, housing diagnostic Tax administration, annual schedules Construction and Housing Code

This study contains no numerical forecast: its scenarios set out assumptions written one by one, with no probability attached. It also lists the topics it sought but could not establish from a primary source.

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