The Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) 2010, which covers the opinions of over 7,400 business owners across 36 economies, puts the stress level for Botswana at 58 percent against a global average of 56 percent.
However, Botswana's stress level has actually gone down by 12 percentage points from previous years.Cash-flow problems and a gloomy economic climate have been stated as the major contributing factors for stress among Botswana businesses. Comments Managing Jay Ramesh, Partner of Grant Thornton in Botswana: "The robust banking sector, the willingness of Government to continue with development expenditure and the generally stable performance of the non-mining sector kept the stress levels under reasonable control. Topping the league of the most stressed leaders is Mainland China where 76 percent of business owners say their stress levels have increased over the last year." Other economies that featured high in the stress league table are Mexico (74 percent), Turkey (72 percent), Vietnam (72 percent) and Greece (68 percent).
