Driving through the north of Benin, the only intensive economic activity you're likely to see is cotton production. Indeed, cotton accounts for 40% of GDP, which was measured at $1,200 per capita in 2004.
We passed dozens of overloaded cotton trucks just like these in our seven days in the country.
Labels: Africa, Benin, cotton, economics, West Africa
posted by Ryan Petersen @ 11:21 AM
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I just completed my MBA at Columbia Business School in New York City this Spring. Recently the blog has been focused on investing and doing business in Africa. I started it, however, when I got sick of mass e-mailing friends and family everytime something weird happened during the two years I worked in China. Check the archives and multimedia galleries (below) to find lots of great stories, pictures, and videos from travels in the U.S., China, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, Kenya and other parts of the world.
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