Publication date: 2018

Author: WB

Description: Doing Business captures several important dimensions of the regulatory environment as it applies to local rms. It provides quantitative indicators on regulation for starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation. Although Doing Business does not present rankings of economies on the labor market regulation indicators or include the topic in the aggregate distance to frontier score or ranking on the ease of doing business, it does present the data for these indicators.

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Publication date: 2017, December

Author: IMF

Description: In the context of the third review under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement, requests for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion, modification of Performance Criteria, Augmentation of Access, and Financing Assurances Review, the following documents have been released and are included in this package:

• A Press Release including a statement by the Chair of the Executive Board;
• The Staff Report prepared by a staff team of the IMF for the Executive Board’s consideration on December 15, 2017, following discussions that ended on October 12, 2017 with officials of the Central African Republic on economic developments and policies underpinning the IMF arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility. The staff report was completed on November 30, 2017 based on information available at the time of the discussions;
• A Debt Sustainability Analysis prepared by the staffs of the IMF and the International Development Association (IDA);
• A Statement by the Executive Director for Central African Republic.

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Publication date: 2017

Author: WB

Description: Central African citizens mobilized to express their desire for peace and to break with the cycle of past violence. Their exemplary democratic maturity ensured the electoral process was peaceful, despite palpable tensions. The welcome given Pope Francis in Bangui in November 2015 and visible reconciliation efforts demonstrate the population wishes to turn the page on this conflict.

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Publication date: 2015

Author: UNICEF

Description: Major events and trends in 2015 highlighted that the situation in the Central African Republic remains extremely fragile. The year started with very promising steps towards peace and reconciliation with the local consultations for the Bangui National Forum and the National Children’s Forum. These initiatives have led to major achievements, such as the National Reconciliation Pact, the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) agreement, and the agreement to release children from armed groups.

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Publication date: 2014

Author: DGE

Description: The Central African Republic is a vast, landlocked country with a total land mass of 623,000 square km, located in the heart of Africa. It shares borders with Cameroon to the West, Congo to the South-West, the Democratic Congo to the South, Sudan to the South East, Sudan to the North-East and Tchad to the North. 

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Publication date: 2013

Author: UNIDO

Description: This report was jointly produced by United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and International Center on Small Hydro Power (ICSHP) to provide information about small hydropower. The document has been produced without formal United Nations editing. The designations employed and the presentations of the material in this document do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of UNIDO and ICSHP concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries, or its economic system or degree of development.

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Publication date: 2012

Author: US Gov

Description: Regional Programs Benefiting a Number of Countries, Including Central African Republic:

• $2.5 million to improve the governance and sustainable use of forest resources
• $1.1 million for capacity building on satellite monitoring of deforestation and forest degradation
• $600,000 to support climate change mitigation in the Sangha Tri-national landscape

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Publication date: 2011, May

Author: AICD

Description: This study is a product of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed to expand the world’s knowledge of physical infrastructure in Africa. AICD provides a baseline against which future improvements in infrastructure services can be measured, making it possible to monitor the results achieved from donor support. It also offers a solid empirical foundation for prioritizing investments and designing policy reforms in Africa’s infrastructure sectors. 

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Publication date: 2007, September

Author: MINPLAN

Description: CAR is a landlocked country in Central Africa, with a surface area of close to 623,000 km². The main city, Bangui, is located 1,400 km from the port of Douala. According to the Recensement Général de la Population et de l’Habitation 2003 (2003 General Population and Housing Census), CAR has 3,895,139 inhabitants, of whom 50.2% are women. 

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Publication date: 1994, November

Author: AfDB

Description: CAR is a country with substantial agricultural and forest potential which is little or insufficiently developed; its mineral resources are limited and the industrial sector is embryonic. The country has a good energy base particularly ip wood fuels and hydro-electricity. No exhaustive inventory of these resources has, however, been carried out and the energy potential consequently remains very underestimated. Efforts have, therefore, been made by the Government to better assess the resources identified and promoie the discovery of new resources.

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