{"id":12283,"date":"2025-06-18T10:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T10:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/?p=12283"},"modified":"2025-06-18T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:21:06","slug":"west-africas-interest-rates-fall-for-the-first-time-since-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/en\/juros-da-africa-ocidental-diminuem-pela-primeira-vez-desde-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"West African interest rates fall for the first time since 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"12283\" class=\"elementor elementor-12283\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0e65b86 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0e65b86\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9b156d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9b156d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On 12 June 2025, the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) announced the reduction of its reference interest rate to <strong>3,25%<\/strong>marking the first decrease since 2020. This decision is part of a scenario of <strong>sustained economic growth<\/strong> in the countries of the region.<\/p><p>At the same time, the BCEAO adjusted the marginal interest rate on loans, in a move aimed at stimulating investment through <strong>greater access to credit<\/strong>.<\/p><p>On the macroeconomic front, the indicators point to a slowdown in year-on-year inflation, which fell from <strong>2,9%<\/strong> by the end of 2024 to<strong> 2,3%<\/strong> in the first quarter of 2025. This evolution was influenced by the improvement in <strong>internal supply<\/strong> and the <strong>fall in the prices of imported goods<\/strong>keeping inflation below the target of <strong>3%<\/strong> defined by the central bank itself.<\/p><p>The decision applies to the 8 member countries of the West African Monetary Union (UMOA): Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo.<\/p><p>With a presence in Cape Verde, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Senegal, the Oporto Forte Group supports the process of entering new markets with 30 years' know-how and a network of local partners.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d2b3c80 elementor-widget elementor-widget-porto_button\" data-id=\"d2b3c80\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"porto_button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"btn btn-md btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/materiais.oportofortegroup.com\/2025_formulario-de-contacto\"><span >I want to know more<\/span><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No dia 12 de junho de 2025, o Banco Central dos Estados da \u00c1frica Ocidental (BCEAO) anunciou a redu\u00e7\u00e3o da sua taxa de juro de refer\u00eancia para 3,25%, marcando a primeira descida desde 2020. Esta decis\u00e3o enquadra-se num cen\u00e1rio de crescimento econ\u00f3mico sustentado nos pa\u00edses da regi\u00e3o. Simultaneamente, o BCEAO ajustou a taxa de juro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-12283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias","tag-127"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Blog-2023-Novo-3.jpg",800,366,false],"list":["https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Blog-2023-Novo-3-463x348.jpg",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Blog-2023-Novo-3-300x137.jpg",300,137,true],"full":["https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Blog-2023-Novo-3.jpg",800,366,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12291,"href":"https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283\/revisions\/12291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oportofortegroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}