An African success story
SOUTHERN AFRICA, once torn apart by war but now tentatively at peace, is enjoying an economic revival. Last year, the region's GDP jumped by an average of over 6%, a rate more often associated with Asia than sluggish Africa. For the first time in many years, the economies in every one of the 12 members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional economic body, grew in 1996; and in eight of them the growth was over 5%. This year they may again do well.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “An African success story”
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