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Special education needs are highest among Form 3 students for both sexes in Botswana. Additionally, the most prevalent form of disability among secondary

Botswanas annual inflation remains above central banks target-

Bank of Botswana (BoB) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), on Thursday announced yet another increase on the interest rate in an effort to tame escalating inflation, which has shot to levels last experienced in 2008.

The contribution of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector to the economy stood at 2.7 percent of total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at

Botswana’s inflation rate continues to soar. Given the fears about Consumer Price Index (CPI), it’s reasonable to assume that in order to fight inflation, which has recently been at multi-decade highs in many countries, central banks will continue to implement rate hikes in the foreseeable future in order to prevent inflationary pressures from becoming entrenched – another that dilemma that consumers should brace for.

Government plans to ban some processed food imports

When it comes to trade relationship between Botswana and South Africa, unfair arrangements have long been normalised in the name of Southern African Custom

The state-owned power distributing monopoly, Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) has made yet another return to the corridors of the Botswana Energy Regulatory

Botswana’s trade balance which has weakened in the past years, widening the trade imbalance, and causing large drawdowns from the foreign reserves, appears to

Botswana to stabilize trade imbalances with South Africa-