Botswana In Top 10 Reformers

  Botswana reformed in three of the 10 areas studied by the report between June 2007 and June 2008.  It ranked seventh among the top 10 regulatory reformers worldwide. Its overall rank on the ease of doing business rose to 38 from 52.

Botswana made trade and the process of business start-ups easier through computerisation and a new companies' Act that strengthened investor protections.
This year, three of the top 10 global reformers -Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Botswana - are from Africa. The top 10 are: Azerbaijan, Albania, the Kyrgyz Republic, Belarus, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Egypt.  Countries in Africa implemented more reforms than in any year since the start of Doing Business - 28 countries implemented 58 reforms. This makes Africa the most active reforming region after Europe and Central Asia.