Cameroon is a country located in Central Africa. The country is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Like most African countries, Cameroon is endowed with resources and counts; oil, cocoa, coffee, and cotton gas and timber among it’s resources. Cameroon has a market-based, diversified economy. Cameroon’s market-based, diversified economy allowed it for a brief period post-independence, Cameroon was one of the best performing economies in Sub-Saharan Africa. A culmination of factors which included the fall in the price of commodities in the country’s post-independence period, such as the overvaluation of the country’s currency as well economic mismanagement led to the country’s challenges. Cameroon’s GDP currently sits at $38.5 billion US dollars, testament to the many reforms that the country has taken. The country launched a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy aimed at meeting the Millenium Development Goals. This initiative has seen the country make great strides in improving its economy. The GDP annual growth rate as of Q1 2019 was 4.2%, a rise from the previous year’s GDP of 3.5%. The country continues to suffer from the unequal distribution of wealth. The country continues to rely on international debt instruments. The country currently is struggling, as a result of a strained fiscus. Cameroon subsidizes electricity, fuel and food. The country has most recently attracted foreign direct investment but these sorts of investments will take time to come to fruition.