Impact of port activity on the national economy: The case of the AAP

"The world has experienced several economic and industrial revolutions in the past, the most recent being the internet revolution. The next revolution will be maritime, it is already underway. Affirmed the French Maritime Cluster of 2017 at p-5. Aware of such a revolution, the Ivorian state does not intend to lag behind. It wants to offer itself a place of choice in the West African sub-region. Therefore, we introduce this study to show the impact of the port of Abidjan on the country's economy so that a place of choice is given to the port economy in this quest. For the empirical validation of the study, we used vector error correction models while using cointegration theory. We conclude that there is a long-run effect between the traffic of the port of Abidjan and the Ivorian economy. The study also provides elasticities of exports and imports from the port as well as their causality on real GDP. An impulse analysis concludes the study.