Economic recession looms
Friday, January 08, 2016
Technically, an economy falls into a recession after two consecutive quarters of negative growth.
Latest data recently released by Statistics Botswana (SB) shows that real GDP (year on year) decreased by 3.5 percent in the third quarter of 2015 compared to an increase of 4.0 percent accrued in the same quarter in 2014.
Figures released by the country’s electoral management body have shown that a total of 1, 037, 684 people have registered to vote.However, eligible voters could be discouraged by events leading to the voting day like poor execution of advance voting amid talks that the elections could be unfair.There have also been threats by certain opposition politicians that shall the elections not be free and fair, they will halt them.Despite these...