S&P's waves red flags
Friday, April 03, 2020
When S&P’s last downgraded Botswana in 2009, the country was wrestling with a collapse of diamond revenues due to the global recession. This time, having emerged from a year of weaker diamond revenues, analysts at S&P’s said their projection was that the country would face continuing pressure on its budget in the “next few years”.
At their essence, sovereign credit ratings are ‘scores’ assigned to countries’ ability to repay debts. Low credit ratings mean countries pay higher interest rates and have lower ability to attract investors, who would worry about raising affordable capital from within such countries.
The contest had 10 beautiful young girls as finalists and unfortunately only one could wear the crown.The judges picked Anicia Gaothuse. To all those who feel their contestant should have won ahead of Anicia for whatever reason, hardly; the judges found Anicia to be the best among the best, so desist from disrespecting our newly crowned queen on social media or anywhere else, for that matter! Each of the 10 beautiful young women had supporters...