IMF Staff Country Reports

Botswana: 2013 Selected Issues

September 23, 2013

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Botswana: 2013 Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines fiscal policy implications for labor market and economic diversification in Botswana. The IMF report analyzes that large public employment significantly affect labor market outcomes in middle-income countries, including Botswana. It is noted that reforms aimed at reducing the rents and the size of the public sector is likely to significantly improve market outcomes in Botswana. As part of efforts to find new engines of growth and support sustainable long-term and broad-based growth, Botswana has over the years also vigorously pursued policies to diversify the economy.

Subject: Employment, Exports, International trade, Labor, Labor markets, Public employment, Unemployment

Keywords: Africa, Botswana government, CR, Crowding-out effect, Diversification policy, Employment, Employment opportunity, Exports, Global, Influence unemployment, ISCR, Labor market, Labor markets, Least squares, Policy lesson, Private employment, Private sector, Private-sector job, Public employment, Southern Africa, Total factor productivity, Unemployment, Work

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    43

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2013/297

  • Stock No:

    1BWAEA2013002

  • ISBN:

    9781484394595

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685