Alassane ouattara biography of william
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BY JIBRIL TURE
Alassane Ouattara was born in in Dimbokro, northern Cote d’Ivoire. He earned his High School Diploma at age 20 in Ouagadougou, the capital of then-Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso. He later received a Ph. D. in economics a the University of Pennsylvania and joined the International Monetary Fund, IMF, in Washington, D.C. in as an economist. Five years later, he joined the Central Bank of West African States, based then in Paris. After working his way to the position of vice governor, he returned to the IMF in , climbing to the position of Director for Africa concurrently with that of special advisor to the managing director. In October , President Houphouet-Boigny appointed him governor of the Central Bank of West African States, at a time when the sub-region was hard hit by a stubborn recession which was compounded, in the case of Cote d’Ivoire, by the sharp drop in the price of cocoa, the country’s main export.
In April , the president appointed him to an unusual position that gave him the power to look over the country’s economy and finances. The position involved the development of a structural adjustment program required by international financial institutions willing to help.
To say that Ouattara, a fine product of the IMF and the Central Bank,
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Alassane Ouattara
President of Ivory Coast since
Alassane Dramane Ouattara (USⓘ; French pronunciation:[alasanwataʁa]; born 1 January ) is an Burkinabé politician and economist who has been President of Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) since An economist by profession, he worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)[1] and the Central Bank of West African States (French: Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, BCEAO), and was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from November to December , appointed to that post by then-President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.[2][3][4][5] Ouattara became the president of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR), an Ivorian political party, in
Early and personal life
[edit]Ouattara was born on 1 January ,[2][3] in Dimbokro in French West Africa.[6] He is a descendant on his father's side of the Muslim rulers of Burkina Faso, then part of the Kong Empire—also known as the Wattara (Ouattarra) Empire. Ouattara is Muslim[7] and is a member of the Dyula people.[8] He received a Bachelor of Science degree in from the Drexel Institute of Technology (now Drexel University), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] Ouattara then obta
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