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Botswana: 2009 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Botswana

June 22, 2010

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Botswana: 2009 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Botswana, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed December 10, 2024

Summary

After several years of robust growth, real GDP growth slowed to 2.9 percent in 2008 owing to a decline in mining output. The nonmining primary deficit (NMPD) amounted to 28.6 percent of nonmining GDP in 2008/09, well above the 16.8 percent NMPD in 2007/08. Botswana continues to peg the pula to a basket of the rand and the SDR in an effort to maintain a stable real effective exchange rate (REER). The 12-month inflation rate fell to 8.4 percent in May 2009 from 15 percent in mid-2008, mostly reflecting reduced pressure on fuel and food prices.

Subject: Balance of payments statistics, Economic and financial statistics, Expenditure, External debt, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Public debt

Keywords: Africa, Balance of payments statistics, Botswana economy, CR, Diamond mining sector, Diamond sector, Diversification, Diversification strategy, Economy, Fiscal stance, Global, Inflation objective, ISCR, Sub-Saharan Africa

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    61

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2010/172

  • Stock No:

    1BWAEA2010001

  • ISBN:

    9781455206575

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685