�eating diamonds� will no longer anchor growth

In the past five decades, Botswana has been the beacon of an African success story registering economic growth rates only slower to South Korea and China. Largely backed by a vast endowment of diamonds and investing the proceeds wisely, the country is now an upper middle-income country. But to maintain the current status or move to become a higher income country in the next five decades, BusinessWeek Staff Writer BRIAN BENZA believes that a second transformation is required in the country where ‘eating diamonds’ will no longer be enough to sustain the current growth and income levels