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Sunday Standard
Sunday Standard
Foreign investors in weak economies like Botswana tend to favour putting their money in natural resource use and extraction, particularly in the areas of minerals, agriculture and fuel production; products like diamonds, oil, crops, tobacco and vegetables. The poorest countries in the world still receive a disproportionately large amount of investment flows into their natural resource sectors, oil in Nigeria, diamonds in Botswana, tobacco in Zimbabwe, cash crops in much of west Africa and eastern Africa. Accompanying these investments in the South have also been serious, sometimes large scale …