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The staff report for the 2006 Article IV Consultation on Botswana highlights economic developments and monetary and … exchange rate policy. Botswana’s growth has been fueled by continued increases in diamond production; and real diamond output …
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The staff report for the 2005 Article IV Consultation on Botswana highlights key issues, recent developments, and …
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The major trends in terms of GDP growth rates, conditions of market forces, and the core inflation crisis in Botswana … Botswana is the strongest compared with other middle-income countries, the overall results do not point toward a positive … pivotal to Botswana's survival in the existing fragile economic environment …
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This 2002 Article IV Consultation highlights that real GDP growth of Botswana slipped to an estimated 11⁄4 percent in … 2001/02 (July–June), largely reflecting a downturn in the global diamond market and a drop in Botswana’s diamond production …. The non-mining sectors performed better, especially the service industries. Their success is in part a product of Botswana …
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This paper examines economic developments and policies in Canada during 1990–95. Spurred by the robust growth in the United States and the easing of monetary conditions between 1991 and 1993, economic growth in Canada continued to strengthen during 1994. Real GDP grew by 4.5 percent in 1994...
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Despite Mexico’s recent remarkable progress in adjusting its fiscal and external accounts and in restructuring its economy, the recovery of growth has remained elusive. This paper reviews some aspects of Mexico’s recent performance and suggests that systemic adjustment uncertainty, and...
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The turn of the century was marked by some significant and promising events for world development. The Millennium Declaration - signed by 189 countries in September 2000 - led to the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals, which set clear targets for eradicating poverty and other sources...
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The global financial crisis, the most severe since the great depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. The financial crisis originated in the developed world, but it has spread quickly and inexorably to the developing world, sparing no country. Increasingly it appears...
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