Macau ready to become richest place in the world by 2020

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Fresh data from the Inter­national Monetary Fund (IMF) ­predicted that by 2020, the city would overtake oil-rich Qatar with the highest per-capita gross domestic product of any country or jurisdiction on earth. The IMF’s World Economic Outlook Update – published at the end of last month – expected ­that economic growth in the casino hub would see it leapfrog Qatar by 2020.
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