Good Investment Sectors in Cameroon

Cameroon's economic needs and potentials are such that there are a great variety of good investment sectors. Amongst other can be cited:

• The transformation of materials which leads to the production of a finished or semi finished goods;
• Extraction and transformation of mineral resources;
• The transformation of hydrocarbons;
• Forest exploitation assorted with the transformation of wood;
• Agricultural production;
• Production;
• Stock breeding;
• Industrial and local fishing;
• Transformation of agricultural products, animal or halieutic;
• Stocking and conservation activities of food products;
• Making of necessary materials for public buildings;
• Maintenance of industrial equipment focused on the making on spore ports;
• Naval repairs, technological research activities and the management of data;
• Hospitals and pharmaceutical laboratories;
• Trial, analysis and control of raw material laboratories for finished or semi finished products used or produced by the industry;
• Touristic restoration areas when they are integrated in a touristic pack or implanted in a touristic site known by touristic administration.

 Favourable conditions to investment

 The economy has enjoy a growth rate of 5% for some years, which has to increase;

• Democratic institutions and the political stability make of Cameroon a country where the risk concerning investment of minimal;
• Its geographical location between west and central Africa, gives it a unique statistic position in terms of trade exchanges. It gives access to several central African countries and some regions of Nigeria;
• Its extension of 1200km gives it a great variety of natural potentials;
• It has abundant and qualified labour, which is cheap and endowed with a great adaptation and initiative capacity which is indispensable for companies;
• Cameroon has a diversified industrial fabric in expansion, presenting a permanent network of sub contracts;
• It has a regulatory and legislative frame which gives freedom to invest and the free transfer of industrial and commercial benefits as well as salaries;
• It has numerous natural resources (petroleum, gas, bauxite, iron, nickel, wood) and agricultural products (cocoa, coffee, cotton, banana, hevea, palm oil, pineapple);
• It has a vast privatisation programme of public and Para public companies whose list is detailed in the chapter of privatisation.