Botswana�s budget lacks transparency � Survey

Finance minister Kenneth Matambo
Finance minister Kenneth Matambo

Failure by the government to engage the public in the budgeting process has earned Botswana an unsatisfactory score on the Open Budget Index (OBI), ranking at position 47 out of 100.

The Open Budget Index is the world’s only independent and comparative measure of budget transparency.

Botswana’s score of 47 out of 100 on the 2015 Open Budget Index is a little higher than the global average score of 45 and is largely the same as its score in 2012.

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