| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The current account deficit, running at an abnormally high 8.5 percent of GDP and financed increasingly by short-term inflows, began to compound severely the gross external debt of US$70 billion (of which US$40 billion was short-term loans), or approximately 50 percent of GDP. These problems exposed other weaknesses in the economy, including substantial unhedged foreign borrowing by the private se
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