Diamond wealth fails to narrow Botswana’s inequality
Sunday Standard Diamond wealth fails to narrow Botswana’s inequality Botswana’s diamond wealth transformed the country into an upper-middle-income economy, but the benefits have not been widely shared, with poverty, inequality and unemployment remaining stubbornly high, the World Bank says. In its first Botswana Economic Update, the lender said about 21.4 percent of the population lives below the international poverty line of US$3 a day, […] The post Diamond wealth fails to narrow Botswana’s inequality first appeared on Sunday Standard and is written by Sunday Standard Reporter
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Diamond wealth fails to narrow Botswana’s inequality
Botswana’s diamond wealth transformed the country into an upper-middle-income economy, but the benefits have not been widely shared, with poverty, inequality and unemployment remaining stubbornly high, the World Bank says.
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The post Diamond wealth fails to narrow Botswana’s inequality first appeared on Sunday Standard and is written by Sunday Standard Reporter
