Botswana | The article warns that Botswana’s focus on “enablers” like roads, offices and IT platforms without boosting actual production undermines real economic growth. A critical reminder for Southern Africa: infrastructure alone won’t deliver jobs, resilience or sustainable development.
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How investing in enablers without production is bad economic policy By Dr Douglas Rasbash – Special Correspondent For decades, Botswana has comforted itself with the belief that investing in enablers is the same thing as investing in growth. Roads, buildings, offices, conference centres, IT platforms, utilities — the list is long and familiar. Every National…