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Although Botswana is rich in diamonds, it has high unemployment and stratified socioeconomic classes. In 1999, the nation (1) its first budget deficit in 16 years (2) of a slump in the international diamond market. Yet Botswana (3)one of the wealthiest and most stable countries on the (4).