Financial Journo @SunStd_bw, Inequality gap closer, CoffeeDrinker(teetotaller), Ngamilander
Apr 2 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
1. Trump’s reciprocal tariff policy starts with a 10% baseline tariff on all imports, with higher rates for countries based on their trade barriers against U.S. goods.
2. Botswana’s average applied tariff rate is 7.6% under SACU and its exports to the U.S. dwarf its imports—$455 million in diamonds versus $50 million in U.S. machinery and vehicles (the latest figures I could get ke tsa 2022)
Feb 16, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
When most people think of poverty, it's broadly defined as a lack of money. Multidimensional poverty, though, describes the affliction of multiple disadvantages – poor health or malnutrition, a lack of clean water or electricity, poor quality of work or little schooling.
In 2019, @statsbots together with @UNDP_Botswana & the Poverty Eradication Unit at the @BWPresidency began an exercise to track Botswana’s poverty progress using the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) as a complementary measure to the monetary ones.
RE:ALLEGATIONS MADE BY THE GOVERNMENT OF BOTSWANA (“THE STATE”) AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF BOTSWANA LIEUTENANT GENERAL DR. SERETSE KHAMA IAN KHAMA (“DR. KHAMA”) IN RE: WELHEMINAH MPHOENG MASWABI vs THE STATE
1. We act for his Excellency the former President of the Republic of Botswana Lieutenant General Dr. Seretse Khama Ian Khama (“Dr. Khama”), hereinafter referred to as our Client.
