{"id":528754,"date":"2025-05-09T17:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=528754"},"modified":"2025-05-09T17:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:38:18","slug":"benin-investment-forum-cotonou-hosts-7th-edition-of-key-regional-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/benin-investment-forum-cotonou-hosts-7th-edition-of-key-regional-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin Investment Forum: Cotonou hosts 7th edition of key regional event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 7th edition of the Benin Investment Forum (BIF) kicked off this Thursday in Cotonou, the economic capital of Benin. A now-established fixture on the West African economic calendar, the 2025 event has brought together around <strong>400 business leaders from 30 countries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Held under the theme <strong>\u201cChoose Benin\u201d<\/strong>, this year\u2019s forum highlights the investment opportunities available in the country, which is increasingly viewed as a rising economic destination in West Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her opening address, Benin\u2019s Minister of Industry and Trade, <strong>Alimatou Shadiya Assouman<\/strong>, praised the forum\u2019s evolution since its launch in 2018, calling it an \u201cessential platform for investors and project developers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cBenin has recorded strong economic growth, exceeding 6% annually in recent years,\u201d she noted, emphasizing the forum\u2019s role in fostering direct connections between economic stakeholders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent figures confirm this momentum: according to the World Bank, <strong>foreign direct investment (FDI) as a share of GDP<\/strong> in Benin rose from <strong>1.1% in 2020 to 2.2% in 2023<\/strong>, signaling growing international interest in the country\u2019s market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 7th edition of the Benin Investment Forum (BIF) kicked off this Thursday in Cotonou, the economic capital of Benin. A now-established fixture on the West African economic calendar, the 2025 event has brought together around 400 business leaders from 30 countries. Held under the theme \u201cChoose Benin\u201d, this year\u2019s forum highlights the investment opportunities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":528755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"pays":[119],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-company-news-benews","8":"pays-benin"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528793,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528754\/revisions\/528793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528754"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528754"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}