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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (932)	5/15/2008 8:53:59 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1267

Its GDP per capita (adjusted for inflation and purchasing power parity) rose from $671 in 1966 to $10,813 in 2005. Unfortunately, the high GDP growth rate has not resulted in increased life expectancy, which, in a country ravaged by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, declined from 62 years in 1980 to 35 years in 2005. That's an AMAZING combination of stats. I don't know that I've ever seen such a combination of enormous sustained economic growth with life expectancy falling off a cliff like that. Generally the extra wealth helps increase life expectancy, and generally anything that would cause such a rapid decline of life expectancy would destroy the rapid economic growth. I wonder if AIDS is indeed doing that in Botswana, if most of the growth was before AIDS started to rapidly spread. I notice the stats for economic growth are from 1966 to 2005, while the stats for life expectancy are from 1980 to 2005. ---- Searching a bit I see GDP growth 4.7% (2006 est.) GDP per capita $11,400 (2006 est.) en.wikipedia.org "Botswana's economy expanded by 6.2 percent in the fiscal year to June 2007" osisa.org "During 2000/2001, real gross domestic product (GDP) rose to 9.1 percent, compared to 8.1 percent in the previous year. " thedti.gov.za "Real GDP remained the same in 2005/2006, but the growth rate is expected to recover to around 5% in 2007/2008." traveldocs.com "Real GDP growth rate (2005/2006): -0.8%." state.gov So it would seem growth declined a bit, and wasn't steady (a recession in 2005/6) but was still pretty good in recent years. I didn't find data for the 80's and 90's.

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