Publications /
Policy Paper

Back
De nouveaux lieux de consommation pour de nouvelles classes moyennes ? Les centres commerciaux à Abidjan
Authors
Clélie Nallet
April 23, 2018

Depuis 2011 et la fin de la crise post-électorale, la Côte d’Ivoire renoue avec une croissance économique spectaculaire. Le pays et sa capitale attirent l’attention d’un nombre croissant d’investisseurs, et les « classes moyennes abidjanaises » sont largement publicisées et convoitées. Parallèlement, les lieux de consommation abidjanais se sont particulièrement diversifiés et transformés. Abidjan offre de nombreuses options pour les consommateurs, qui évoluent dans un contexte compétitif de large choix, en termes de lieux, de produits et de services. Les nouveaux centres commerciaux sont, dans le sens commun, associés aux classes moyennes. Mais quelles réalités et évolutions sociales reflètent-ils réellement ?

RELATED CONTENT

  • December 17, 2021
    The last decade has been marked by a long period of debt accumulation, particularly in emerging and developing economies. Loose financing conditions and low interest rates encouraged these countries to borrow to meet their financing needs. Today, in the context of the global crisis caus...
  • December 17, 2021
    The research project “Purpose-driven companies and the regulation of the Fourth Sector in Ibero- America” is part of an inter-institutional effort involving the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The project has its origin in the results of a previous research developed by SEGIB (Fourth Sector companies and the SDGs in Ibero-America, 2020), through which we analyzed the i ...
  • December 16, 2021
    حدد المغرب أهدافه للتنمية الإقليمية استنادا على مختلف أدوات التدخل كسياسات التنمية القروية وبرامج الهياكل الأساسية والخدمات الاجتماعية، وكذلك برامج التنمية المستدامة والبرامج المتعلقة بأقاليم محددة كالواحات والجبال والمناطق الحدودية. وقد أكد تقرير نموذج التنمية الجديد على ضرورة تعزيز قد...
  • Authors
    December 16, 2021
    We provide evidence on the direct and indirect effects of trade and infrastructure on women’s participation in the labor force. We use panel data from 91 developing and emerging economies, and examine the impacts of openness to international trade and three indicators of infrastructure (access to electricity, mobile phone subscriptions and internet use) on female labor force participation. Fixed-effects and instrumental variable fixed-effects estimates suggest that both trade and ac ...
  • Authors
    December 15, 2021
    How do you treat a brutal dictator who had lost power after 42 years, hiding in a drainpipe, after his convoy was attacked by fighter jets from the air? It was a bloody mess and not a pretty scene. The dictator had a few seconds to beg for his life, “what did I do to you», he gasped reported the London Guardian on October 22, 2011, and then his turbulent life came to an end, shot with a pistol. Triumphantly his assassin raised Gaddafi’s golden revolver -- a few minutes of global fam ...
  • December 15, 2021
    Since its emergence, the new coronavirus has continued to bring many uncertainties, whether in terms of health aspects, policy measures or social and economic consequences. If there is, however, one certainty in this Covid-19 era, it is that the pandemic is a turning point in human hist...
  • December 14, 2021
    التنمية العامة في المغرب مع حسن أكوزول، خبير في أهداف التنمية المستدامة وآليات تمويل المناخ. وفقًا لتقرير النموذج التنموي، يعاني المجتمع المغربي من انقسامات عميقة من ناحية بين مكونات الطبقات الاجتماعية، ومن ناحية أخرى بين المندمج والمهمش، وبين المستفيدين من عالم أكثر انفتاحًا وعكسهم وكذ...
  • Authors
    Sabine Cessou
    December 13, 2021
    This political analyst, expert in security issues and international development, describes her personality as « down to earth, curious », and not taking herself « very seriously ». Born in Seattle, half German and half Korean-American, she was raised « between three cultures ». After a decade living and working abroad in Rwanda, China, Afghanistan, the UK, and Myanmar, she is now based in Berlin. She’s fond of cooking and is a « beer nerd » – her German side, definitely. This 36 ye ...