The Czech Republic has a market-based economy with a strong industrial component and a growing service sector. In 1997 GDP was US$5,050, making it one of the more prosperous countries in CEE. Unemployment was 8.5% in 1999. Like other countries in the region it had rampant inflation in the early 1990s, but this had fallen to 10.7% by 1998.
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