కోటె డి ఐవొరి: కూర్పుల మధ్య తేడాలు

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[[File:Cote D'Ivoire Export Treemap.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|A proportional representation of Ivory Coast's exports in 2011]]

Ivory Coast has, for the region, a relatively high [[per capita income|income per capita]] (US$1,662 in 2017) and plays a key role in transit trade for neighboring, [[landlocked country|landlocked countries]]. The country is the largest economy in the [[West African Economic and Monetary Union]], constituting 40% of the monetary union's total GDP. The country is the world's largest exporter of [[cocoa bean]]s, and the fourth-largest exporter of goods, in general, in sub-Saharan Africa (following South Africa, Nigeria, and Angola).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfw4a.org/cote-d-ivoire/cote-d-ivoire-financial-sector-profile.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022073819/http://www.mfw4a.org/cote-d-ivoire/cote-d-ivoire-financial-sector-profile.html |archivedate=22 October 2010 |title=Côte d'Ivoire: Financial Sector Profile |publisher=MFW4A.org |accessdate=6 December 2010}}</ref>

The Ivory Coast's economy has grown faster than that of most other African countries since independence. One possible reason for this might be taxes on export agriculture. Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Kenya were exceptions as their rulers were themselves large cash-crop producers, and the newly independent countries desisted from imposing penal rates of taxation on export agriculture, with the result that their economies were doing well.<ref>{{cite book|author=Baten, Jörg |title=A History of the Global Economy. From 1500 to the Present|date=2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=335|isbn=9781107507180}}</ref>

 

 

A major study of the issue in 2016, published in [[Fortune Magazine]] in the U.S., concluded that approximately 2.1 million children in [several countries of] West Africa "still do the dangerous and physically taxing work of harvesting cocoa". The report was doubtful as to whether the situation can be improved significantly: