Cabo Verde’s economy has recovered well from the significant challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the pandemic highlighted the country’s inherent vulnerabilities, which include the economy’s heavy reliance on tourism, lack of shock buffers, and the risks posed by underperforming SOEs. Climate change impacts are adding to these vulnerabilities. Against this backdrop, this Economic Update reviews the state of the economy in 2023, and projects forward to 2024 to assess the short-term outlook, making policy recommendations for macroeconomic strengthening. It also looks in depth at the potential embodied in the blue economy – the ocean, fisheries and aquaculture – for diversifying Cabo Verde’s economy and increasing its resilience, offering policy options for making the most of this potential.
Authors
- Citation
- “ World Bank . 2024 . Cabo Verde Economic Update, March 2024: Blue Economy: The Latent Potential of Fisheries and Aquaculture in Cabo Verde . © Washington, DC: World Bank . http://hdl.handle.net/10986/41693 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO . ”
- Collection(s)
- Economic Updates and Modeling
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1596/41693
- Identifier externaldocumentum
- 34336207
- Identifier internaldocumentum
- 34336207
- Published in
- United States of America
- Region country
- Cape Verde
- Report
- 190957
- Rights
- CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
- Rights Holder
- World Bank
- Rights URI
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
- UNIT
- EFI-AFR2-MTI-MacroFiscal-1 (EAWM1)
- URI
- https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41693
- date disclosure
- 2024-06-11
- region administrative
- Africa Western and Central (AFW)