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This Investment Climate Policy Note
(ICPN) identifies the main constraints to the development of
the private sector in the Republic of Congo, based on a
survey of enterprises operating in the manufacturing and
services sectors, in Pointe Noire and Brazzaville, and to
propose specific short term recommendations to address these
constraints. The ICPN emphasizes cross-country comparisons
and benchmarks the investment climate across various firm
characteristics. It is a targeted report focusing on a
smaller set of indicators of firm performance and
concentrating on certain dimensions of the investment
climate. It aims to answer the following key questions: (i)
what are the required reforms to improve the investment
climate in Congo, (ii) how to prioritize these reforms and
(iii) how to implement the priority reforms, what could be
the institutional mechanism to drive the reform agenda? The
report begins with a discussion of Congo s background, and
Chapter 2 describes the investment climate. The last chapter
makes recommendations going forward.
