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  "title": "Botswana: Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation",
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      "content": "- Africa\n- balance\n- Balance of payments statistics\n- consumer price inflation\n- core inflation\n- CR\n- creating capital inflows\n- debt\n- debt stock\n- debt-creating flow\n- diamond export\n- Europe\n- Financial statistics\n- fiscal policy\n- Fiscal stance\n- Global\n- ISCR\n- real GDP\n- Southern Africa\n- Sub-Saharan Africa\n- sustainability framework\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Botswana: 2012 Article IV Consultation; IMF Country Report 12/234; July 10, 2012\n  - Botswana: 2012 Article IV Consultation; IMF Country Report 12/234; July 10, 2012 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Botswana: 2012 Article IV Consultation; IMF Country Report 12/234; July 10, 2012 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475504880.002",
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    "Although the recovery from the financial crisis in Botswana is described as the strongest compared with other middle-income countries, the overall results do not point toward a positive development in the economy.",
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