Botswana: Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation
IMF Staff Country Reports, August 10, 2012
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Bibliographic details
- Published: August 10, 2012
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475504880.002
Summary findings
- The report analyzes major trends in GDP growth rates, conditions of market forces, and the core inflation crisis in Botswana.
- Although the recovery from the financial crisis in Botswana is described as the strongest compared with other middle-income countries, the overall results do not point toward a positive development in the economy.
- The report stresses that the need for authorities to take up certain measures and modify their methods of functioning is pivotal to Botswana's survival in the existing fragile economic environment.
Key subjects and issues covered
- Balance of payments statistics
- Economic and financial statistics
- External debt
- Financial statistics
- Fiscal policy
- Fiscal stance
- Public debt
Keywords and thematic areas
- Africa
- balance
- Balance of payments statistics
- consumer price inflation
- core inflation
- CR
- creating capital inflows
- debt
- debt stock
- debt-creating flow
- diamond export
- Europe
- Financial statistics
- fiscal policy
- Fiscal stance
- Global
- ISCR
- real GDP
- Southern Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- sustainability framework
Content in this bundle
- Botswana: 2012 Article IV Consultation; IMF Country Report 12/234; July 10, 2012