Botswana

Botswana extends note exchange

Bank of Botswana gives public three months grace to exchange pula banknotes, enlists commercial banks and post offices for operation

Botswana to continue tightening

The Bank of Botswana will maintain its restrictive monetary policy, Linah Mohohlo, the governor of the central bank, said in the opening remarks to the mid-term monetary policy statement.

Botswana - Annual Report 2007

Financial services and public access to banking services significantly improved last year, said Linah Mohohlo, the governor of the Bank of Botswana, in the latest annual report.

New SWF event to be held in London

Whether being portrayed as villains for their opacity and secrecy, or as saviours for shoring up the capital bases of some of the biggest investment banks, sovereign wealth funds have seldom been off the front page of late.

BCAEO - Annual Report 2006

Governors from members of the BCAEO alliance were very much involved in shaping the agenda of the March 2006 meeting of the Association of African Central Banks, which was held at the head office of the BCAEO in Dakar, Senegal.

Bank of Botswana - Annual Report 2005

According to the Bank of Botswana's Annual Report 2005, inflation maintained a downward trend during the first half of 2005 until May, as the impact of the 7.5 percent devaluation in February 2004 fell out of the inflation calculation; however, it rose…

Rybinski on inflation targeting, challenges ahead

In the speech 'Inflation targeting and the challenges ahead' given on 18 May Krzysztof Rybinski of the National Bank of Poland said that since 1990, when the pioneering Reserve Bank of New Zealand first introduced inflation targeting, over twenty…

Bank of Botswana - Annual Report 2004

According to the Bank of Botswana's Annual Report 2004, in 2003/04 real gross domestic product (GDP) grew by a provisional 5.7 percent, lower than the revised 7.8 percent growth in 2002/03.

Deputy BoB governor explains his departure

The deputy governor of the Bank of Botswana, Dr Keith Jefferis, resigned from the bank earlier this month after five years of service. In this article he explains the reasons for his departure, saying that he chose to leave because he wanted to set up…

SADC: Central bank independence reduces inflation

Finance and development planning minister, Baledzi Gaolathe, told the SADC meeting of central bank governors in Botswana that countries where central banks enjoy independence had greater success in reducing inflation and improved micro economic…

Botswana head voted central banker of the year

Bank of Botswana Governor Linah Mohohlo has been voted central bank governor of the year for sub-Saharan Africa by Euromoney magazine, reports Sapa. Mohohlo received the award after a poll by international investors, bankers and representatives of…

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