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Enhancing public budget transparency in Botswana: Why and how?
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Competition, productivity and privatisation
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 1997-08)This report is a summary of proceedings and presentations during a policy seminar on "Competition, Productivity and Privatisation" organised by Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) and Botswana ... -
"To privatise" : what is & how?
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 1997-08)This paper draws on lessons of experience and existing knowledge on privatisation, briefly addressing the main issues and describing how the privatisation process can be planned and implemented successfully. Privatisation ... -
Challenges for agricultural diversification in Botswana under the proposed SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 2005-11)Botswana has been pursuing the economy-wide objective of economic diversification for the past three decades. This paper examines the challenges Botswana's Agriculture is likely to face under the EU/ACP Economic Partnership ... -
Determinants of non-mining private investment in Botswana
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 2002-02)The paper seeks to identify factors influencing and determinants of non-mining private investment in Botswana. It presents various studies conducted in other countries with modified assumptions to suit Botswana economy. ... -
Citizen economic empowerment in Botswana
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 1999-07)This paper attempts to clarify the concepts and principles of citizen economic empowerment. Empowerment has been at the centre of a shift in thinking about economic development as a response to the failure of modernisation ... -
Macroeconomic policy convergence and a SADC Free Trade Area Paper
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 1999-10)Regional free trade areas fail because one member country is perceived as getting more than its share of the benefits. Most non-SACU SADC economies would not be able to export to a newly opened South African market, so ... -
The long term impact of structural economic change on government spending
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 1999-07)Botswana's current economic objectives centre on diversification away from its historical dependence on diamonds and government. Such diversification will change the structure of the economy and has important implications ... -
The impact on Southern Africa of the financial crises in Asia and Russia
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 1999-06)The countries of southern Africa have not suffered seriously from "financial contagion which is the short-term and sometimes devastating impact of financial crises in other countries. The first stage of financial contagion ... -
Minimum wages and employment : Literature review and background on minimum wages in Botswana
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 1998-03)This paper gives a brief literature review on minimum wages and their possible effects on employment, with particular focus on the likely effects of minimum wage introduction in the two excluded sectors, namely the ... -
The African Growth and Opportunity Act: A preliminary analysis of the possible opportunities and limitations to Botswana exporters
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 2002-05)The paper identifies products that have received substantial trade concessions as a result of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which would otherwise carry a tariff rate of 15% or more when exported to USA. ... -
A simple formula for forecasting the Botswana urban population total
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 1998-02)The aim of the present paper is to establish a simple functional relationship linking urbanisation and economic growth. The paper consequently focuses on the interplay between developments in urban population and basic ... -
Poverty assessment and poverty alleviation in Botswana
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 1997-07)This paper examines the nature and extent of poverty using the Household Income and Expenditure Survey 1984/85 and 1993/94, and goes on to give a synoptic view of Government's poverty alleviation strategies in which six ... -
Data requirements and methodologies for Multi-Country Research : A paper presented at the Workshop on Developing an African Research Agenda for accelerating development in Sub-Saharan Africa held in Harare, Zimbabwe, March 23-26, 1997
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 1997-03)This paper, presenting data and methodology for coooperation at'nationaf,"regional and continental levels in research, discusses the need to consider possible constraints facing individual research institutions when ... -
A study of the potential economic effects of AIDS: Some preliminary thoughts
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 1996-03)Given the current high rate of HIV / AIDS infection in Botswana, there seems a need to analyse its economic impact. It is suggested that BIDPA may take an initiative towards this end. The paper presents some preliminary ... -
International Stock Market Linkages in Southern Africa
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 1999)