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Botswana

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Although Botswana is rich in diamonds, it has high unemployment and stratified socioeconomic classes. In 1999, the nation [blank] its first budget deficit in 16 years [blank] of a slump in the international diamond market. Yet Botswana [blank] one of the wealthiest and most stable countries on the African [blank] .

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Although Botswana is rich in diamonds, it has high unemployment and stratified socioeconomic classes. In 1999, the nation suffered its first budget deficit in 16 years because of a slump in the international diamond market. Yet Botswana remains one of the wealthiest and most stable countries on the African continent .
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