Botswana can become a sundry number of things. Some mutter that the country can become a logistics hub whilst some posit it can become a financial transactions hub shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes of Switzerland. The list goes on and on. This confusion on what Botswana’s competitive advantage is can also be seen in the lack of clarity in national development planning and budgeting tools, a confusion that has chained down the nation’s development prospects.
Recently the Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC) brought together government parastatals and some members of the private sector to explore actions being taken to address Botswana’s performance in the World Competitiveness rankings. Government is, as always, addressing the ease of doing business and enhancing a bunch of other policies that quite frankly may not be aligned to the broader development mandate the country has.
