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Article: ESTONIA: PRESIDENT ILVES SPOKE ABOUT E-ESTONIA AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA IN TAMPA
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 22, 2008
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The office of the President issued the following news release:
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who is on a working visit to the United States, gave a lecture yesterday about Estonia's success story at the University of South Florida in Tampa. President Ilves gave the audience a short overview of the country's history, the consequences of the Soviet occupation, and the rapid developments during the last 17 years.
"In 1991, when we had lived exactly one year as a re-independent country, Estonia's GDP per capita was 702 dollars. Based on this indicator, Estonia was among the poorest developing countries," President Ilves said. "In 2007, our GDP per capita already reached 20,300 dollars ...
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