The well-established front man for Côte d’Ivoire’s economic revolution, premier Daniel Kablan Duncan has become a common sight at the country’s investment roadshows. Sporting well-tailored dark-blue suits and conversing in fluent English or French about the finer points of Abidjan’s economic reform programme, Duncan has for many foreign businesses and governments come to embody Côte d’Ivoire’s reorientation.
And historically, that’s correct. Duncan was finance minister in the last days of late president Félix Houphouët-Boigny, just as the decision was made to turn the economic ship around.
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