As a reflection of Côte d’Ivoire’s ongoing commitment to improving its business environment and making the nation an attractive investment destination, the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index for 2014 – 2015 has ranked Côte d’Ivoire 115th this year, a significant improvement over our ranking of 126th last year.  We are now ahead of many other African nations, such as Nigeria, Mozambique, Angola and Tanzania, and are continuing to work hard on improvements in processes and procedures that will move us towards our objective of being an Emerging Market Country by 2020.