This study is a product of the AfricaInfrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designedto expand the world's knowledge of physicalinfrastructure in Africa. Infrastructure contributed 1.8percentage points to Cote d'Ivoire's annual percapita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the mid-2000.Raising the country's infrastructure endowment to thatof the region's middle-income countries could boostannual growth by a further two percentage points per capita.Cote d'Ivoire made major strides with respect toinfrastructure during the 1990s. As a result, the countryhas broad-reaching national backbones in the road, energy,and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)sectors, and relatively high levels of household coveragefor utility services. However, much ground was lost toconflict in the mid-2000s. Very little investment has takenplace in the last fifteen years, leading to recent powershortages, the deterioration of the road network, and thedeceleration of progress on safe water access. Coted'Ivoire's most pressing challenge will be toregain the financial equilibrium needed to restore areliable energy supply. Reestablishing the prominence ofAbidjan's port will require investments in terminalcapacity, as well as road and rail infrastructure upgradeson hinterland linkages. The underfunding of road maintenancemust also be addressed. Another challenge lies insanitation, as it is currently unlikely that the countrywill meet the associated millennium development goal. Thisreport presents the key AICD findings for Coted'Ivoire, allowing the country's infrastructuresituation to be benchmarked against that of its Africanpeers. A social and economic crisis in Cote d'Ivoirehas crippled its growth trajectory, which had been that of amiddle-income country. It will therefore be compared tolow-income countries (fragile and non-fragile groups) andmiddle-income countries, as well as immediate regionalneighbors in West Africa. The study presented severalmethodological issues.
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