IMF handholds Botswana in building statistical capacity
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Jefferis
At the request of the local authorities, a mission from the IMF’s statistics department visited Gaborone last week to assist with the implementation of the e-GDDS.
The mission helped redevelop the National Summary Data Page (NSDP), currently on the Bank of Botswana (BoB) website, utilising the open data platform.
It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees. We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD...