Business decries slow pace of reforms

PALAPYE: The business community has called on government to fast track the implementation of business reforms to ease doing of business and attract investment.

During a Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC) consultative workshop held recently, members of the business community noted that the implementation of these reforms has been long talked about but to date things are still the same making doing business in Botswana difficult.

The Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) principal industrial officer, Tidimalo Sitang said in her presentation that the government has been rolling the ball on the reforms and some of those reforms are in place although it is slow to implement them.

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