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Continental drift: Europe’s challenges

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Chocolate Industry in Ivory Coast Is a Problem, but It's Not Going to Transform the Economy

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Chocolate-coated cashews are particularly popular with the French military base nearby. The local market is quite small, and rich markets like Europe are pretty distant for a product that melts. That's really a problem for those who want a big, avorean chocolate industry. In other countries, over time people move out of agriculture into jobs in the cities. And for Ivory Coast, that is probably still the only way to sort of really transform the economy.

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