IMF sees Ivory Coast growth reaching 8 pct in 2013
ABIDJAN, March 27 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund sees economic growth in top cocoa grower Ivory Coast reaching 8 percent in 2013, up from a previous forecast of 7 percent, a senior Fund official said on Wednesday.
"In 2013 our (growth) figure is 8 percent," Michel Lazare, who headed a two-week evaluation mission to the West African nation, told a news conference in the commercial capital Abidjan.
(Reporting by Loucoumane Coulibaly; Writing by Joe Bavier)
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Keywords: IVORYCOAST ECONOMY/IMF
ABIDJAN, March 27- The International Monetary Fund sees economic growth in top cocoa grower Ivory Coast reaching 8 percent in 2013, up from a previous forecast of 7 percent, a senior Fund official said on Wednesday.