| The dynamics of the development of Cape Verde is becoming a constant with significant gains to the country, as attests the recent adhesion to the World Trade Organization, the graduation to Country of Medium Revenue, as well as the Special Partnership with the European Union.On July 23,2008, Cape Verde became the 153rd State member of the World Trade Organization, and in this conquest it was the first African country and the third Less Advanced Country to get this mark through negotiable way.The advantages proceeding from this adhesion are many, highlighting the investors largest trust in the country when propitiate the expansion of the market and the accomplishment of business in a safer and stable atmosphere, and still the possibility of improvement of the quality of installment of services, once everything started being guided by patterns and rules of the international trade.This work was elaborated based on bibliographical and exploratory researches necessary to the construction of the theoretical referential about the subject in question, based on articles, books, magazines and website researches. This thesis has also SWOT analysis of the country in general.The aim of this study is to contribute to the academic and professional level in order to reinforce the theoretical knowledge on this Subject. It will feel fully pleased if the proposed work translates into some usefulness to remind these classes for this importance issue.The knowledge, even if it’s brief, of the realities of practice that already has tradition and systematic approach, it will be a way to underline the importance of this matter and the need to create conditions for the improvement in its treatment.This research will be the first in this topic, and will be informative and didactic, bring the reality of the country to the heart of the economic and social structural challenges, that the country will face, and the solutions for the future, not only for local politicians but most importantly the business class.As for the exterior, surely that should be an added value since it portrait the island in their essence, so that any organization or individual may obtain truthful survey data from a small country that accessed to WTO.The results obtained at the end of the work, showed in a clear way-the need of Cape Verde to organize, to reinforce the private sector and the competitiveness of the companies, through, namely:the improvement of the fiscal atmosphere of the companies, fomentation and support of the small and medium companies. Meanwhile, it is important to continue the reforms in the commercial sector, qualifying and forming national staff once they play an essential part in the economic growth of the country and allow giving a larger prevision to the investors, being this last one, one of the decisive pillars in the requirement of the external investment. |