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Speech of Namory Yraore,Advisor to Minister of Economy,Industry and Trade, Mali
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组委会新闻中心
2008-9-8 15:48:00 |
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
I would like first of all to say to you that it is with pleasure that I take part in this meeting to inform you on the new environment of the businesses and the potential of partnership which Mali offers.
Mali is a new ground of investment.
With a total surface of 1.241.238 km 2, for a population estimated at more than 12 million inhabitants, Mali is located in the middle of Western Africa and divides its borders with seven other States. Mali is a true crossroads of exchanges, as well with the coastal countries as with the Sahara. In this respect, it has a predisposition to the development of the sous-régional trade. Also, any investment in this space profits it from a true Common Market of approximately 73 million consumers with regard to the eight country of the UEMOA and 220 million for the 15
Member States of CEDEAO.
Today, Mali is presented in the form of a socially stable country politically and equipped with legal and democratic institutions which give him an exemplary label of country.
The economic environment is characterized by the free enterprise and the free competition.
To Mali, the highest authorities attach an importance very particular to the role and the place of the sector private in the policies and strategies of development of Mali.
This political good-will clearly posted by the authorities Malians to make private Sector the principal vector of the economic development, was translated without ambiguity through a series of measurements of a nature lawful and legal, which define from now on the institutional framework of the businesses in our country.
Under the most important measurements, I will quote:
? the institutionalization of periodic meetings between the President of the Republic and the sector private through a framework of dialogue;
? the creation, since December 30, 2003, of the Presidential Council for the Investment “CPI”, which meets regularly twice the year;
? the Creation of the Agency for the Promotion of the Investments
? the installation of inciting measurements to the investment such as the Code of the Investments or the creation of a single Counter.
Extremely results obtained at the time of the five last years, Mali, through the PDES “the Project for the Economic and Social Development”, ambitionne a stronger economic growth from at least 7% per annum of 2007 to 2012. This stronger economic growth target rests on:
a strategy of agro-pastoral power,
? concentration of the resources on the competitive sectors,
? continuation of the vigorous program of basic infrastructures,
? the development of the private Sector
? and the investment in human resources.
The private Sector will be encouraged to play a paramount part in the PDES like principal vector of the development.
Agriculture will be the lever of the growth and source of richnesses for the populations within the framework of exporting Mali of agro-alimentary, processed and labellized products. The political good-will is to lead agriculture Malian to a production of 10 million tons of cereals per annum by 2012 to make of Mali an agricultural power.
The grounds available particularly suitable for agriculture and the breeding occupy nearly 46 million hectares. 3,5 million hectares are emphasized on a total of approximately 12 million cultivable hectares. Mali has an irrigable potential of more than 2 million hectares of which more half by gravitation. The Office of Niger lays out, with him all alone, of an irrigable potential of almost a million hectares.
The central Delta of Niger covers as for him, nearly 4 million hectares. The Senegal river also offers, with its affluents, of important possibilities of agro-sylvo-pastoral installations in the Area of Kayes.
The principal productions are: the cereals (3 693.000 tons), the mangos (200 000 tons), French beans (400 tons), the tomatos (24 000 tons), the shallots (100 000 tons), potatoes (30 000 tons), the gombo, cotton, the groundnut, sesame, tobacco, tea and products of gathering (shea tree: 250.000 tons of almonds, gum arabic, etc).
In order to diversify the production, to stabilize the incomes of the peasants and to accelerate the economic growth, the Agricultural Law of Orientation (leasing), adopted in 2006, the promotion of alternative cultures like soya recommends, the shea tree, the fruit and vegetables, the gum arabic, the biocarburants.
Manpower of the national livestock are estimated at more than 30.000.000 of heads (all confused species), among which one notes inter alia 8.141.000 bovines, 9.761.000 sheep and 13 593.000 caprine.
The total production of meat was 112.187 tons in 2007 (including 104.851 tons of red meat and 7.336 tons of white meat and 500.000.000 liters of milk
The controlled production of leathers and skins records 291.259 bovine leathers, 780.038 ovine skins - caprine and 543 leathers camelines.
The poultry was estimated at 25 million units and the eggs with 309.550.000 parts.
The national halieutic production is estimated at 100.000 tons of fish per annum in period of normal hydrology.
For the mining sector, the existence of a keen national demand justifies the possibility of investing in the field of the cement factory (national need estimated at more than 1.000.000 tons per annum), in the units of exploitation and transformation of gold (Mali is the 3rd producer in Africa after South Africa and Ghana with 55,8 tons in 2007), etc
The year 2007 was also remembered by the continuation of the activities of oil and mining research in Mali. Real signs of hopes exist for a commercial exploitation of oil in medium-term Mali.
Mali also lays out of important identified layers of diamond, iron, bauxite, manganese, copper, lead, uranium, phosphate, marble, limestone, etc
The transport sectors, of public works (road infrastructures, hydraulic stoppings, etc), of telecommunications, energy, the craft industry and tourism also offer several interesting business appropriatenesses. Today Tombouctou, Mopti, Djenné and the Dogon country are appreciated destinations for which it is necessary to add the creation of new products such as the Fort of Médine, the Festival on the Niger river,…
To encourage to develope its resources, to diversify and consolidate its economy, Mali adopted an inciting Code of the investments. This current Code founds a tax system and customs officer privileged in order to promote the private investments as well national as foreign. All the guarantees necessary are offered to make safe the investments carried out. The foreign investors profit from the same privileges that the national investors and they are entitled to the transfer of the capital and the incomes in the yielded currency.
In the field of the lawful framework, the government maintained the liberalization of the prices and the distribution chains. The Government continues, also, the improvement of the legal system and the implementation of the texts of the Organization for the Harmonization in Africa of the Right of Businesses (OHADA).
For the emergence of the private Sector, the Government aims thus to seek to raise the fundamental constraints and to set up the conditions favorable to the development of the private Sector of Mali. Also, the new actions of support to the private Sector will carry mainly on:
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