The country's economy has grown at an average of 3.5% since 2008, below the sub-Saharan African average of 5.5%.
It is low-cost and does more than the average general purpose (GPR) prepaid card (like sub-accounts, and roadside and purchase protection).
Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa should significantly outpace the global average over the next three years, according to the World Bank.
BBC: World Bank: Africa's economic growth to outpace average
Over the past decade GDP has grown by 10.6% a year, according to the World Bank, double the average in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa.
As economies in endemic countries continue to grow (average growth rate of 6% in sub-Saharan Africa), endemic countries are better positioned to contribute a greater share of their own resources.
Sandwiched between two of the world's most famous deserts - the Namib and the Kalahari - Namibia is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, with less than 370mm of rainfall on average each year.
CNN: Namibia country profile: moving on from a difficult past
Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa now use only about 9kg of fertiliser per hectare on average, compared with 142kg in South-East Asia.
UN's Conference on Trade and Development reports that sub-Saharan Africa's exports of manufactured goods have risen by an average of just under 6% a year since 1980, less than half the figure for Asia's developing economies .
In most high-tech fields today, the know-how needed to make a component, sub-assembly or finished product has progressed too far and too fast for the average worker to be able to propose any useful innovations.
An average of around 1, 000 staff work on the site as sub-contractors but that figure can vary considerably.
On average, education accounts for more than 18% of all public spending in sub-Saharan Africa compared to 15% in other regions.
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