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Article: Creating the country of tomorrow.(Equatorial Guinea, economic development)
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- The Middle East
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- July 1, 2005
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Over the past decade, Equatorial Guinea has experienced economic growth on a scale rarely seen in Africa or indeed anywhere else in the world. The combination of a string of oil discoveries and the country's limited population has resulted in annual GDP growth fluctuating between 13% and 66% over the past few years.
The IMF predicts that growth in 2005 will reach a massive 48% (not as much as the 72% growth the country enjoyed in the late 1990s but high enough to retain the country's status as the fastest growing economy in the world).
This will not only permit the government to put its finances on a much firmer footing but it will also enable the kind ...