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Punatshangchhu I, financed by India, is the biggest hydropower project now under development in Bhutan. (Photo by Nidup Gyeltshen)

Bhutan growth soars amid hydropower building boom

Rising debt to India could make country the Greece of South Asia, critics say

THIMPHU -- Sustained investment in hydropower is pushing economic growth in the small and isolated Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to new heights. This year the landlocked nation, which built its first modern road in the 1960s, is poised to post Asia's highest growth rates.

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