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income country.Singapore is a high-income economy with a gross national income of US$54,530 per
capita, as of 2017. The country provides one of the world’s most business-friendly regulatory
environment for local entrepreneurs and is ranked among the world’s most competitive economies.GDP
growth in the city-state has been amongst the world’s highest, at an average of 7.7% since
independence and topping 9.2% in the first 25 years.
Despite the abundance of goods and natural resources that characterize South Africa, and despite the
remarkable progress in the field of industry and manufacturing, it is still in the list of developing
countries. Since the late 1970s, however, South Africa has had continuing economic problems, initially
because its apartheid policies led many countries to withhold foreign investment and to impose
increasingly severe trade sanctions against it.