The economic history of the Republic of Panama
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- Economy limps into the holiday
season
- By Willy Carrera Loza, The Panama News,
November 2001. Problems with unemployment and scant
economic growth continue without any quick resolution in
sight, despite advances in the economic policy dialogue
between the government and the opposition.
- The canal expansion debate starts to get
serious
- The Panama News, August 2002. The Panama
Canal is this country's most valuable capital asset,
but it's 88 years old and many of the ships that are
being built these days are too big to pass through its
locks. Just because the Panama Canal has been a key
crossroads for world commerce for as long as anyone can
remember, there is no guarantee that this will
continue.