Botswana jumps up competitiveness rankings

Capital city Gaborone PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES
Capital city Gaborone PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

Botswana has registered significant improvement in most aspects of competitiveness, surpassing regional peers such as Namibia and Kenya.

However, the country still lags behind when compared to South Africa and Mauritius.

In the recently released 2017 Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Botswana is ranked 64th out of 138 countries. This marks an improvement of eight positions, relative to the previous report.

Editor's Comment
Inspect the voters' roll!

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