Report queries credibility of Botswana budget

The exposure, which comes two weeks before the presentation of the 2014/15 national budget, not only cast doubts over the ability of the budget to provide a reliable indication of the government’s resource envelope but also detects weaknesses in its usefulness as a tool for allocating scarce resources in line with policy priorities.

 This led to the national budget, in the 2013 appraisal report, foundering in three of the four indicators that were used to assess budget credibility.