Ten reasons for investing in Cameroon :
- A receptive country for productive foreign investments, reflecting institutional stability, a constantly growing economy (5% growth rate) and an open and democratic society
- Strategic geographical location in the heart of Africa, characterized by a wide variety of landscapes and a rich cultural diversity, conferring a true way of life
- Crossroads of peoples offering a unique commercial position, open on the Atlantic Ocean, sharing a border with five other countries of Central Africa and giving access to the 120 million Nigerian consumers. Abundant, reliable and inexpensive electric power and a considerable water supply network
- Abundant, qualified and cheap manpower endowed with a great capacity to adapt and take initiative, all essential for the development of companies
- Diversified industrial fabric under expansion, with a permanent outsourcing network
- Legislative and regulatory framework that guarantees the freedom to invest and free transfer of industrial and trade profits as well as wages
- Availability of many natural resources (oil, gas, bauxite, timber, iron, nickel, etc.) and agricultural produce (cocoa, coffee, cotton, banana, rubber, palm oil, pineapple, etc.);
- Extensive programme to implement major development projects (ports, hydroelectric dams, bridges) including the Kribi Deep Water Port construction project, the dams of Mekin, Memve'ele and Lom Pangar, the Douala-Yaounde expressway construction project, etc.
- Modern communication and telecommunication infrastructure with a developed road and rail network linking the various regions of the country, a reliable air and sea link and a high-performance telecommunication system
- New attractive law instituting private investment incentives;
- Simplification of administrative procedures with the law on e-commerce and e-payments
- Creation of a one-stop shop at the Investment Promotion Agency to ease the creation of enterprises and obtaining approvals, as well as reception desks at all airports to issue entry visas to foreign investors