Taxing fuel, say, will boost your coffers and please environmentalists - but will slow production and anger drivers.

Both of these changes conspired to slow production, and many shops did not receive stock until well into the season.

The very slow production rate continued, causing cancellation of a number of existing orders.

By 2000 there was massive unemployment, a lack of medicine, tight credit, slow production to fight inflation and increasing taxes.

This was a tremendous boost for the local economy because the large sawmills had begun to slow production.