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Namibia’s current account deficit widened to N$11,4 billion during the first quarter of this year.<\/em><\/p>\n This is up from N$8 billion recorded a year earlier, official figures show.<\/p>\n This means the country imports a lot more than it exports, compared to previous years.<\/p>\n According to the Bank of Namibia’s June 2024 Quarterly Bulletin, this is primarily due to a decline in the merchandise trade balance and services account.<\/p>\n The report also attributes the decline to the government’s repayment of domestic…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Namibia’s current account deficit widened to N$11,4 billion during the first quarter of this year. This is up from N$8 billion recorded a year earlier, official figures show. This means the country imports a lot more than it exports, compared to previous years. According to the Bank of Namibia’s June 2024 Quarterly Bulletin, this is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6495,14732,48935,724,9052,257,8710,254,10371],"class_list":["post-175747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billion","tag-deficit","tag-n114","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-quarter","tag-south-africa-today","tag-widens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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