## 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

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### 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

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## Content in this bundle

- **Botswana: 2012 Article IV Consultation; IMF Country Report 12/234; July 10, 2012**
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