Скачать или смотреть Cameroon government predicts economy will expand by 6% in 2017

Cameroon's finance minister Alamine Ousmane Mey says the country's economy is set to expand 6 percent this year even as it imposes new taxes. The central African nation last month approved the introduction of 24 taxes that apply to a wide range of goods and services, to compensate for a decline in government revenue from oil. Some of the goods included in the tax are second-hand car imports and exports of timber. Mey also said the government will boost the agriculture sector by making it easier and cheaper for farmers to buy equipment, pesticides and fertilizers. Cameroon is the world's fifth-largest cocoa grower and Africa's third-largest producer of palm oil. The IMF predicts that its economy expanded by 4.8 percent in 2016.