National Blueprint · One of 195
The world’s largest cocoa producer, 32.7 million strong, which swapped expensive debt to free about EUR 330 million for its schools.
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Where Ivorians and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.
Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Côte d’Ivoire: one of a community of selfless people, at home and abroad, building a nation where every citizen has a decent life.
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Every mandate makes the same four moves for Côte d’Ivoire. What changes is how deep we go, and how far the work travels toward market.
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Orange, white and green: the savannah of the north, peace, and the forests of the south. You grow more cocoa than any nation on earth, and you invented a new way to turn expensive debt into schools.
“You turned expensive debt into classrooms. Now turn those classrooms into readers.”
Dispatches
Short analyses of the instruments and investments shaping Côte d’Ivoire, written for ministers, investors and citizens by Preeti Sinha and by Yao Kouassi, Nation Steward of Côte d’Ivoire.
All dispatchesDispatches appear here as soon as they are published.
Design Studio · Writings
An essay, an article or a true story of up to 1,500 words: your vision of Perfect Côte d’Ivoire and the economic solutions to achieve it. Original and unpublished, published with your name and your permission.
Sovereign Assets
Each is owned today, earns today, and can lift Côte d’Ivoire closer to Perfect Capita.
54 in every hundred live in towns and cities; the rest live on the land they farm and fish.
The land that feeds the nation, and the first place a citizen dividend can be earned.
Standing forest holds the water, soil and carbon that the world will pay to keep.
Enough to supply every home, once it is stored, treated and piped.
Sun, wind, water and biomass already carry part of the load; the rest is the opportunity.
What each asset is worth, and how far it can carry Côte d’Ivoire toward Perfect Capita, is the question our research and our guests take up below.
Sovereign AssetsDesign Studio · Perfect Capita
The Living LineThe poverty line measures income. The Living Line measures a life: food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and livelihood. Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards. Coverage scores each standard strictly out of 100, and a nation is held at its weakest: Côte d’Ivoire at 20.1, by education, with shelter at 27.1 and water at 36.4 next.
Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Côte d’Ivoire. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures
Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source.
The Research · Capital Architecture
The record in figures
The register
Guarantee behind a cheaper loan; about EUR 330 million freed for education over five years
A buy-back of the most expensive commercial debt, refinanced with a cheaper, longer loan and spent on schools.
World Bank
Source$3.5 billion EFF/ECF and $1.3 billion RSF; about $833 million released in June 2026
The fiscal deficit fell to the regional ceiling of 3 percent of GDP in 2025.
International Monetary Fund
SourceServices for millions of mothers and children
Improves health, nutrition and early childhood care.
World Bank
Source
Yao KouassiNation Steward of Côte d’Ivoire · SI ResearcherEvery change is sourced and reviewed before it is published.
Design Studio · Enterprises
The Stewards are verifying the companies and social enterprises already delivering the seven basic living standards in Côte d’Ivoire. Suggest one to include.
Suggest an enterpriseDesign Studio · Voices of Côte d’Ivoire
Launching soon“What does Côte d’Ivoire already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”
We are looking for the people with real stories from Côte d’Ivoire: the leaders who built something that works, and the keepers of local knowledge who know how their communities live, cope and thrive.
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