Ten percent enjoys 42% of national income - study

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Despite rapid urbanisation and rural poverty and its impact on the rural population and the larger society, the majority of people in Botswana still reside in rural areas.

This was said by Dr Kenneth Dipholo of the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning in his presentation at the Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (BOCONGO) national stakeholders workshop held in Gaborone on Tuesday. 

"The challenges of rural development as a process for increasing income alongside simultaneous poverty reduction (efforts) are made fierce by the all pervasive phenomenon of increasing levels of poverty and disparities in wealth," Dipholo said.

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