In the next financial year, the Government is confronted with a ballooned wage bill that continues to exert far-reaching implications on the country’s fiscus. A budget...
The month of August is known for strong winds and sunny, long days. In front of Lentsweletau Sub-land board offices lies small, worn-out shacks of three...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), on Monday, 23 August 2021, triggered its Special Drawing Rights (SDR), allocating a whopping $650 billion to its member countries, the...
Tributes continue to pour in for the late former Bank of Botswana Governor, Linah Mohohlo, who succumbed to COVID-19 this morning at Bokamoso Private Hospital. Mohohlo,...
French President Emmanuel Macron received 21 Heads of state and government officials from Africa during the recent summit on the Financing of African Economies that focused...
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on the Regional Economic Outlook on Sub-Saharan Africa has revealed that the region will be the world’s slowest growing region...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) quantified and reported in 2017 how much Botswana is losing annually to wasteful government spending; it took the COVID-19 pandemic for...
Lockdown is back, but now with less stringent measure of curfew restrictions, and will affect the economy whose bounce back was expected to be this year....
Stanbic Bank Botswana Quarterly Economic Review indicates that Botswana will fail to meet some of its Vision 2036 targets, particularly unemployment reduction and reaching high-income status....