Business confidence surges

Businesses expect improvement in 2015
Businesses expect improvement in 2015

Botswana business confidence surged substantially and further improvement is expected in 2015, according to the Bank of Botswana Business Expectation Survey.

Based on perceptions among the local business community about the prevailing state of the economy, the survey revealed that overall confidence in the prevailing business conditions during the second half of 2014 stood at 52 percent.

This is 14 percent higher than the figure recorded in the March 2014 survey, but lower than the 64 percent expected for this period in the earlier survey.

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