Abstract EN:

Regional development policy in ivory coast. This thesis priamrily analyses the factors responsibles for the interregional inequalitites, secondly, it deals with the policies which attempt to correct them. At the origin of these disparities are the agricultural products for exportation and the relevant intra-structure roads, the trading posts, the factoreries along side the littoral, the military and administrative centres. Further on we consider the sensitive growth of the town of abidjan. Which owing to its port polarise the development of south-eastern region and consequently that of the entire country. Next, we address ourselves to the efforts of restructure as from 1960. This necessitated the integration of the south western forest region by developing the farming of all the industrial and cash crops upon the cretion of a port town : san pedro. In the savana areas where the forest crops cannot be cultivated, cotton cultivation was developed and a few agro sugar complexes were established. The other more effective policies of restructure are underway : the balancing of the different regions by the construction of rural netwrok together with urbanization policies. Apart from abidjan dynamism's the hierarchical evolution of the towns indicate clearly a structuring process around the small and averagely big towns. However, this is more evident in the forest zones than in the savana regions.