Botswana halved poverty head count

A two-day Post-2015 Development Process Workshop organised by the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning has revealed that Botswana has made substantial progress on most Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets.

According to the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Solomom Sekwakwa, by 2009, Botswana had already halved the poverty head count ratio from 47% in 1993 to 19.3% 2009.

Sekwakwa said the nation also reduced extreme poverty by 72.6% between 2002 and 2009 alone “with modest but well thought out adjustments to policy and strategy responses to poverty, especially social protection. Botswana could eradicate extreme poverty by 2016”.

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