Francophone West Africa Business Forecast Report

Published: January 11 2010 Quarterly   

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The Francophone West Africa Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Niger.

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Report Description

The Francophone West Africa Business Forecast Report helps businesses with West African market assessment, strategic planning and decision making to promote growth and profitability in Francophone West Africa and is an essential tool for CEOs, Chairmen, Finance Directors/CFOs, Managing Directors, Marketing/Sales Directors with commercial interests in this emerging market.

An influential new analysis of Francophone West Africa's political, economic and financial prospects through end-2014, just published by award-winning forecasters, Business Monitor International.

Key Uses

  • Forecast the pace and stability of Francophone West Africa's economic and industry growth through end-2014
  • Identify and evaluate adverse political and economic trends in Francophone West Africa, to facilitate risk mitigation
  • Assess the critical shortcomings of Francophone West Africa's business environment that pose hidden barriers and costs to corporate profitability
  • Contextualise Francophone West Africa's country risks against regional peers using BMI's country comparative risk ratings system
  • Target business opportunities in Francophone West Africa's high-growth industry sectors
  • Evaluate external threats to doing business in Francophone West Africa, including currency volatility, the commodity price boom and protectionist policies

The Francophone West Africa Business Forecast Report by Business Monitor International (BMI) includes two major sections: Francophone West Africa's Political Outlook and Francophone West Africa's Economic Outlook.

Francophone West Africa's Political Outlook:

What are the political risks to doing business in Francophone West Africa over the next 5-years?

BMI's Francophone West Africa Country Risk Ratings evaluate the short- and medium-term threats posed by government instability, adverse economic policy-making, deterioration in the business environment and external shocks.

Francophone West Africa Political Outlook Contents

  • SWOT Analysis for the West African Market
    Political strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing Francophone West Africa.
  • Political Stability and Risk Assessment for Francophone West Africa
    BMI's Risk Ratings assess explicit short and long-term risks to political stability; latest ratings, rankings and trends for Francophone West Africa's risk are compared with regional and global averages.
  • Current Administration and Policy-making in Francophone West Africa
    BMI profiles key policy-makers and power-brokers in the West African government, assessing threats to the continuity of West African economic policy, and likely changes to the business operating environment through end-2018.
  • West African Foreign Policy
    BMI examines key trends and shifts in Francophone West Africa's foreign relations and alignments with regional neighbours, the United States and Europe, focusing on external influences.

Key Benefits

  • Benchmark Francophone West Africa's risk profile against its neighbours, the global and regional average, allowing easy comparison of risks between key business markets.
  • Identify, evaluate and anticipate political and security risks to the business environment in Francophone West Africa, and to your company's current operations and future plans.
  • Gain valuable insights into the West African government and policy-making, through BMI's specialist team of analysts and economists, and their exclusive network of private and public sector sources.

Francophone West Africa's Economic Outlook:

How will West African economic policy-making and performance impact on corporate profitability over 2009-2014?

BMI provides our fully independent 5-year forecasts for Francophone West Africa through end-2014 for more than 35 macroeconomic variables. We evaluate West African growth, and also forecast the impact of economic management, including central bank policy, on profitability.

Francophone West Africa Economic Outlook Contents

The Francophone West Africa Business Forecast Report features explicit BMI economic forecasts for country, with supporting commentary and analysis, for end-2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 set against West African government views. Underpinning our Francophone West Africa forecasts are key assumptions for the global economy through end-2014, covering growth, inflation, employment, trade and investment, interest and exchange rates in the US, Japan and the Euro-zone.

Coverage of Key Economic Issues in Francophone West Africa

  • Economic Activity in Francophone West Africa
    Real GDP growth; industrial growth; employment growth; inflation and consumer prices; consumption (indicative wages, retail sales, consumer confidence)
  • Fiscal Policy in Francophone West Africa
    Current macroeconomic strategy and implementation policies; government finance (revenue, expenditure, budget balance); tax reforms
  • Monetary Policy in Francophone West Africa
    Interest rate trends (bank lending and deposit rates); inflation (retail price inflation, consumer price inflation); exchange rate policy in country; currency controls; influence of foreign direct investment inflows; exchange rates and foreign exchange reserves
  • Balance of Payments in Francophone West Africa
    Merchandise trade (exports, imports, trade balance); current and capital account balances
  • Foreign Direct Investment in Francophone West Africa
    Foreign direct investment approvals and inflows; the foreign investment climate
  • West African External Debt
    Debt profile (short- and long-term debt; public and private sector exposure)

Key Benefits

  • Rely upon BMI's 100% independent Forecast Scenarios for Francophone West Africa and underlying assumptions - we take no advertising and are privately-owned.
  • Exploit the benefits of BMI's comprehensive and reliable macroeconomic database on Francophone West Africa, sourced and fully maintained by BMI from an extensive network of private sector, government and multilateral contacts.
  • Gain key insights into the current and future direction of West African government economic policy

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