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Botswana’s ERTP is in trouble

Friday, August 13, 2021 | 3370 Views |

As soon as it became apparent that COVID-19 was not only a deep health crisis but an economic one too, the world’s leading economists gave countries two related pieces of advice:

a) 'Act fast and do whatever it takes', a euphemism for the deployment of heavy fiscal artillery to minimise the economic damage from COVID-19;

b) Build back better

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