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Cypriot growth rate, should not dismiss this World Bank selection of similar<br />

economies.<br />

Figure 6.20 The level of government consumption in the "More Developed<br />

Mediterranean " economies as a % of GDP in 1955, '60 & '65<br />

25% t<br />

20%<br />

15%<br />

10%<br />

5%<br />

0%<br />

?<br />

Source: IBRD, "World Tables 1980".<br />

Given a similar performance in terms of background and conditioning factors in<br />

1960, (or at least appropriate divergence from the mean, for example higher than<br />

average investment rates, Figure 6.18), it could be assumed that a unified Cypriot<br />

economy would (ali other things being equal) continue to perform around the "More<br />

Developed Mediterranean" group of economies mean when it carne to subsequent<br />

economie growth. However, whilst Cypriot background and conditioning factors<br />

conform quite closely to the average of "More Developed<br />

Mediterranean"<br />

economies, by simply removing the two outliers, Israel and Turkey 47 , the fit may be<br />

even closer. The graphs below compare Cypriot performance with that of the "More<br />

Developed Mediterranean" economies other than Israel and Turkey, a group that<br />

will be referred to as the Regional Sub-Group.<br />

47 Israel being a belligerent, heavily externally finaneed, migrant economy and'Turkey a much larger,<br />

more structurally diverse economy than other members of the group.<br />

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