Botswana: Selected Issues

August 8, 2017

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Botswana: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed October 16, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines the stability of the financial sector in Botswana. The financial system has grown rapidly over the years, but there is still substantial scope for expansion. Banks, institutional investors, and the Botswana Stock Exchange have grown steadily over the years based on political and economic stability, savings from diamond exports, and fiscal surpluses. Botswana’s financial stability framework could benefit from upgrading. Data gaps and incomplete information on cross-border capital flows and growing interconnection with the nonbank financial sector may entail risks. In this regard, close cooperation among regulators and proper assessment of macro-financial risks associated with banks’ large exposures will contribute to more effective financial system supervision.

Subject: Income and capital gains taxes, Personal income tax, Revenue administration, Tax administration core functions, Tax incentives, Taxes, Value-added tax

Keywords: Africa, Bank, Bank lender, Banks assets, Botswana, CR, Financial system supervision, Global, Income and capital gains taxes, Income inequality Gini index, ISCR, Personal income tax, Rate, South Africa underground, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tax administration core functions, Unemployment challenge, Value-added tax, VAT

Publication Details

Pages:

31
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2017/250
Stock No:

1BWAEA2017004
ISBN:

9781484314906
ISSN:

1934-7685

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