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Chapter | Country Profile from The Report: South Africa 2012

This section outlines South Africa’s history, culture, geography and economy.

South Africa lies on the southern tip of Africa, occupying 1.22m sq km with some 2800 km of coastline along the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The so-called “Rainbow Nation” has a population of around 50.5m and is a melting pot of ethnicities, cultures and languages that reflect its rich and tumultuous history.

The government is taking a number of measures to strengthen Ghana’s business environment in a bid to reinforce growth as the country struggles with a rising import bill due to a depreciating cedi.
Plusieurs rapports détaillés, publiés par un groupe de chefs d’entreprises et par le Fonds Monétaire International (FMI), ont exposé les mesures que l’Algérie pourrait prendre pour diversifier son économie et y réduire le poids des hydrocarbures.
Le produit intérieur brut (PIB) du Gabon, qui poursuit une forte tendance à la hausse amorcée en 2010, devrait progresser de 5.7 % cette année, d’après le Comité monétaire et financier national. L’économie a enregistré une expansion de 6 % en 2011, favorisée par la hausse des prix mondiaux du pétrole et des dépenses publiques ambitieuses dans le cadre de la stratégie de développement national, Le Gabon émergent.
Although a number of Egypt’s other major revenue earners may have suffered following the ouster of former President Mubarak, foreign remittance inflows have weathered the instability fairly well, totalling roughly $14.3bn in 2011, according to the central bank.

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