Joblessness to slow poverty reduction - World Bank

The World Banks says Botswana’s poverty levels will fall in the short-term but achieving further success will be impeded by the private sector’s constrained capacity to create new jobs.

Botswana’s poverty levels, which depicts the number of people living on $1.9 or less per day, currently stands at 12.7%.

In a Macro Poverty outlook report released recently, the World Bank projects poverty levels to decline by 0.7 percentage point annually to reach 10.6% of the population by 2019.

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