Botswana�s budget lacks transparency � Survey

Finance minister Kenneth Matambo
Finance minister Kenneth Matambo

Failure by the government to engage the public in the budgeting process has earned Botswana an unsatisfactory score on the Open Budget Index (OBI), ranking at position 47 out of 100.

The Open Budget Index is the world’s only independent and comparative measure of budget transparency.

Botswana’s score of 47 out of 100 on the 2015 Open Budget Index is a little higher than the global average score of 45 and is largely the same as its score in 2012.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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